Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clean slate, a fresh opportunity to laugh, share and learn from one another. And Sherri has never given up. Even when teased by the neighborhood girls, her long ago-playmates, when rejected by her best friend Amy because she was not up to Amy's middle school standards of cool, or when cast aside by the piercing looks of waiters and store clerks--Sherri has never cracked her positive attitude. She never loses hope that others will soon see her as a genuine and funny person to befriend instead of a disabled nuisance to pity or even worse, to ignore...
...that my chorus role was miniscule. To the interviewer, I was now "talented" and worthy of his respect. Forget about judging or self-segregating based on ethnicity--we at Harvard are too righteous and politically correct. We only self-segregate based on skill. We are trapped in the middle-school mentality that only the people who have crimped hair and slap bracelets are worthy of playing seven minutes in heaven...
...Really, a capella groups, Final Clubs, sports--it's exactly the same. What we need is a whole lot of Sherris at this school. People with a strength of heart as well as a strength of mind. Yes, the smartest girl I know can't read. She can't read words, but she can read emotions. She can read friendship. She can read love...
...Working at nights, he can spend days at home. "I run around, shopping or cleaning the house. I drive my kids to school and pick them up. Sometimes I prepare dinner. My wife doesn't like to cook steak; she overcooks it." On his days off, Billy likes to watch wrestling on TV with Crystal. "On Saturday at 9 a.m., there's a wrestling preview on [channel] 38. My favorite is The Rock. He's the people's champion, they say. But my daughter likes Stone Cold Steve Austin. I don't know why she likes...
...year contracts, and it's understood that most will move on after the contract is up. After that, there are four main routes: An analyst can stay in investment banking and seek a promotion, go to a venture capital firm, to private industry, or to business school. Industry is the most popular choice, especially with 25-year-old Internet millionaires cropping up everywhere--some analysts even leave early for Silicon Valley. And more and more graduates are skipping finance altogether to found their own Internet companies; some college students try to found start-ups while taking semesters...