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...Turkey Shoot.” After months of sucking up, the month-long process kicks off with position papers and the “schmooze,” a series of meals and coffees with assorted Crimson higher-ups. The final week consists of interviews in front of a semi-circle firing squad of outgoing execs asking a series of belligerent questions. Students hoping for a spot on the Lampoon undergo a similarly harrowing process. The idea that becoming assistant editor of a college newspaper or joining the business board of a humor magazine demands such a stressful process...
...can’t distribute holier-than-thou criticisms about the nature and being of the opposite sex without virulent claims of being from a backwards (and often backwoods) society. Men can’t pin individual shortcomings on semi-universal anatomical and biological traits without having their ethics and intelligence called into question...
...dial in a cockpit - a pilot would merely enter a 4 digit emergency code; and there is a specific one for a hijacking). Things were moving rapidly, and at 10:21, Garvey ordered the diversion of all international flights to the U.S. The FAA called NavCanada, the semi-private organization that runs the Canadian air traffic system - and with whom the FAA is in almost constant contact every day because flights are often sent north of the border. Most flights that were close to US shores headed for Canada, while others turned back to their originating airports. Ten minutes later...
...bond market closed early Friday, and trading has been light following the terrorist attack. The Fed, meanwhile, on Friday announced it was injecting $81.25 billion into the banking system, after pledging another $70.2 billion on Thursday. But the plumbing at the heart of America's largest financial market remains semi-functional. "The financial system is fragile and this problem needs to be cleared up as soon as possible," says a federal official...
...generalizations to be made that hold true across the whole spectrum of art activity in South America. How could there be? The histories of the countries that constitute it are so totally different, especially in the 20th century. What could a country like Argentina, long ruled by a semi-fascist dictator like Peron, intensely conservative in its cultural orientation, have in common with a long-running, more or less liberal democracy like Venezuela's? In the real world there is no unified entity called South America. What this show presents is not some fiction of a general cultural ethos...