Word: suit
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...graduate. I urge you to do the same. Here's some advice from a fellow student in the same predicament: look at all sides and weigh your choices before quickly deciding to leave the books behind at Harvard this summer for a hot and humid work week wearing a suit while crunching numbers...
Setting: A dimly-lit courtroom. Only four people are present. The judge, a grizzly-looking octogenarian who scowls over his spectacles, swirling his grayish hair about his face; the prosecuting attorney, a carefully groomed elderly gentleman in a dark suit and briefcase; the defense attorney, a young, hot-shot legal rookie with his hair slicked back and Calvin Klein frames on his chiseled face; behind him silently sits a person whose gender, race and age are hidden by the lack of light...
...equity study showed that women, even such NPR bright lights as Nina Totenberg and Cokie Roberts, were consistently paid less than men. In 1995 Katie Davis, then a contract reporter for Morning Edition and the temporary host of Weekend All Things Considered, filed a $1.2 million suit charging that the network failed to promote her to a permanent position and paid her less than men in comparable jobs. That suit was settled too, for an undisclosed amount...
Last year Susan Klein, a recording engineer, filed a $600,000 suit alleging that NPR discriminated against her after she was found to have a precancerous condition. The other pending suits: one by a librarian, filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act; and two Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints by black technicians...
Wills thinks Wayne remains a psychic presence for us because he embodied the frontiersman's virtues, a free man ranging a free and open land, the rot of the cities, the ambiguities of an intricately developed society well lost. But the description is stale and does not suit Wayne the way it does quieter, more mysterious figures like Gary Cooper and Randolph Scott. For the Duke was only intermittently like them--in The Big Trail, his first starring role, or in the starkly iconographic Hondo, which Wills unaccountably fails to mention. Mostly his character was not a man escaping civilization...