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...affirmative action in practice doesn't work as gracefully as the theoretical or legal model, and the middle-class half-Asians can sneak in the back door if they're willing to make the effort. This happens because employers and admissions offices lose sight of the fundamental purpose of affirmative action...
...great deal of the credit must go to Ross, whose direction is evident in the characterization of all the cast. His interpretation is wonderfully imaginative and hysterically funny. But for all its surreal humor, it never loses sight of the drama. The Revenger's Tragedy is a morality play, showing a society ruin itself through its own appetite for destruction. Had he tried to portray that moral void in a straightforward manner, Ross would have failed. The bloodthirstiness of the story is too much for the modern audience. Instead, somewhere in the final scene--with the chandelier spinning, Luxurioso gorging...
First stop: Serendipity on Mass Ave. Nice name and nice clothing, but no Levi's no boxers and no Tevas in sight. I exit...
...figure out which issues are peripheral before that becomes obvious to others, and to avoid spending any more time in a meeting than needed to accomplish his purpose. Colleagues praise him for other lawyerly virtues as well: sound judgment, discretion, the ability to absorb technical minutiae fast without losing sight of the big picture, a willingness, says a friend, "to work his ass off." Berger is kind to secretaries, seldom crabby and uses a quizzical, ironic humor to defuse stress. He loves the front line of politics; he helped drill Clinton before the presidential debates and often accompanied...
...Kondo was overwhelmed with customers at his Toyota showroom in Tokyo. Sales were booming, and most shoppers looking for top-of- the-line models, the best their yen could buy. Those days are gone; today Kondo surveys a showroom full of sparkling new cars -- and not a customer in sight. "In my 30 years as a salesman," he says, "I have never seen it as bad as this...