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...creating sustained academic relationships within their fields of study. Since no official mechanism exists to facilitate such relationships, and many professors do not even advertise their office hours, students must be aggressive. Once you find a professor who is doing work in an area of your interest, be relentless about going to his or her office hours. Inquire about the professor's research and ask to be employed as a research assistant. Hopefully these interactions will develop into a personal relationship and provide tangible and intangible benefits...
DOWNSIZED BY THE DIRECTOR In his documentary The Big One, anti-corporate crusader Michael Moore visits Nike CEO Phil Knight to challenge the shoe company's use of cheap Indonesian labor. In the film Knight seems evasive, edgy and ultimately tripped up by Moore's relentless interrogation. But did the filmmaker unfairly tailor Knight's appearance? In an effort to wipe the treadmarks off his reputation, Knight has put outtakes on Nike's Website www.nikebiz.com) There Moore, who comes off as an attack dog in the film, is heard purring to Knight, "I honestly think you're the good...
...defensive midfielders refused to let Yale's relentless but ineffective dodging from the midfield wear them down. Their conditioning and concentration paid off in the second half as they allowed only one goal by midfielder Coddy Johnson, who scored in traffic, lodging a lucky shot in the top left corner...
...headlines were sensational, and the editorial writers were not far behind in drawing the politically correct conclusion: PROPOSITION 209 SHUTS THE DOOR (New York Times). In the relentless campaign against Proposition 209, which in 1996 abolished racial preferences in California, the "plunge" in minority students accepted for next fall at the University of California is political dynamite, alleged proof that the new color-blind admissions policy shuts the schoolhouse door in the face of minorities...
Borders are mankind's way of measuring power. They expand and shrink, bend and break at the touch of human ambition. But as the century's empires came and left, life kept up its relentless pace...