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Well, I’ve got news for you. The answer, in most cases, probably isn’t very profound. The moments of genuine educational value were few and far between. Sure, you learned a few things—perhaps, in your case, they were intermediate Sanskrit, the wisdom of not leaving your laptop unguarded in Lamont and the knowledge that it is possible, albeit painful, to shotgun a beer with your toes. But these jewels of enrichment were connected by miles and miles of paper clip-chain crap. “Joe Millionaire” taught you nothing...
...true to the original text rather than stuff the work into a typical Hollywood cliché-fest. When he meets a producer with other ideas, Cage complains that he doesn’t want to “cram in sex or guns or car chases or characters learning profound life lessons or growing or coming to like each other or overcom[ing] obstacles to succeed in the end. The book isn’t like that and life isn’t like that. It just isn?...
...these folks, I offer the most profound lesson I’ve learned here: Cool out. We all noticed it too. No one likes people who make mountains out of meatballs...
...ronique: We head out for the night. Our alternate lives as cheerleaders have ended, but we’ve left with a profound appreciation for...the fact that we never have to do this again...
Finally, the University of Michigan affirmative action cases, argued before the Supreme Court this spring, have presented us with the most profound questions about meritocracy. At their heart, the cases ask us to reexamine our beliefs about what constitutes merit, and whether any sort of merit that can be measured numerically translates into moral desert. In other words, can we say that a given candidate, even one with a perfect GPA and LSAT score, deserves or is entitled to a spot at Michigan Law School? Or is merit more instrumental—a construct that can be manipulated to serve...