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When this writer approached him for an autograph earlier this season, he said. "I'm sorry, but the fans down in the bullpen were rude to me, so I'm not gonna sign...
...teaching fellow, speaking on condition ofanonymity, says that when he asked the core officefor help, staff members were "unspeakable rude...
...takes three to six months, says one quant who has made the transition, to change a shy, bookish type into a ruthless money-making machine. What's required, says this alumnus of the system, is "to lose your sense of decency. You have to be rude, brash, you have to be selfish. Also you have to start ignoring 90% of what you are told." He describes, perhaps admiringly, a vulnerable Ph.D. from Princeton University. This fellow wore $50 suits and thick glasses. He was painfully polite. Transformed, he became the quant from Hell. "He's got this personality suddenly...
Some students who had already found jobs for the spring semester found the news a rude shock...
Although it might be rude to point out, language is not a sacred entity. The French language did not descend from the heavens in its present incarnation. As Steven Pinker, a professor at M.I.T., explained in his New Republic article entitled "Grammar Puss," language is a continually evolving conglomeration of sounds and symbols inherited and assimilated from countless cultures...