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...stage, he was rejected. “They don’t tell you why you’re rejected,” James explains, unless the reasons are life-threatening.“I had already started spending like I had been accepted, so that was kind of rough,” he says. But it was not an entirely wasted effort. “You know the Playboy issues you would be kind of excited about but never pay the six dollars for? They always had those issues.”Neither James nor Steve had serious qualms...
...replacing stock tables, sport stats and TV listings with service features, publishers are adapting to the ubiquitous availability of raw information. ? To expand their audiences, papers are launching Spanish editions, free commuter dailies and glossy magazine inserts. ? By launching writer blogs and posting rough drafts of cartoons and editorials online, some editors are encouraging more community involvement. ? Gannett has announced a new "crowd-sourcing" policy, enabling editors to draw on reporting from readers...
...life, Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett), has survived and might possibly still love him. It takes him about a nano-second to find her and about the same amount of time to discover that she has been ill used by fate. Soderbergh and Attanasio notice that there is a rough analogy between this pair and Casablanca's Rick and Ilsa--except (and it's a big exception) that Lena, unlike Ilsa, has become hard, manipulative and utterly selfish. Also, she doesn't just need ditsy letters of transit. She's involved in the more cosmic issue of the competition between...
...English classes and regions: Jackie, Lynn and Sue from a London council estate, John, Andrew and Charles from a Kensington boarding school, Paul and Simon (originally spelled Symon) from a charity home, Neil and Peter from a Liverpool suburb, Suzy from a titled family, Nicholas from the Yorkshire dales, rough-and-tumble Tony from the East End, ethereal Bruce from divorced upper-class parents...
...frustration and astonishment, as shot after shot clanked off the rim. He was just 2-of-12 entering the extra session, and 0-5 from three-point range, and he added to his malaise by misfiring on his first attempt of overtime, another three-pointer. Goffredo’s rough performance was an extension of a shooting slump that began in Harvard’s last game, a win over Lehigh on Saturday, when he scored a season-low five points on 1-of-8 from the floor and 1-of-6 from downtown. But rather than pull his captain...