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...really wanted to work in Hollywood in some capacity at that point but instead I just became a management consultant at Monitor in Cambridge. I think I was the most incompetent consultant they ever hired...My friends would always tell me, “You can’t be that bad at the job. It must be because you don’t enjoy it.” In fact, I actually had one of my performance evaluations lying around and I would quote them...

Author: By Emily C. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Peter Blake | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...never thought I would ever write for a medical show...I just never liked science classes or anything like that. I’ll tell you how it’s helped. Two things: A lot of writing...comes out of research and Harvard will teach you how to do that. More than that, writing is rewriting...a good writer is miserable with everything he’s done...I do feel that at Harvard you learn to work really hard. And you learn to be a perfectionist, and I think that’s come in handy more than...

Author: By Emily C. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Peter Blake | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...story is harder than one might imagine. “It requires the ultimate efficiency of words,” says Kevin P. Seitz ’10, who planned on submitting an entry. “I have a lot of ideas. It’s easy to tell which ones are bad, but it’s hard to know if any are good.” Seitz would not reveal much about the progress of his magnum opus, but he said he noticed a trend in his ideas. “I find myself straying toward something...

Author: By Shannon E. Flynn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Literature Nano | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...There aren’t enough hours in the day for me to tell you what is wrong with the current admissions process,” says Sally F. Rubenstine, Senior Counselor and Editor at CollegeConfidential.com. “All the anxiety that it brings our children that doesn’t need to be there...

Author: By Gracye Y. Cheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playing Catch Up | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...appearance, the brothers are in fact very difficult to tell apart, although Lech, the President, has a small mole on his left cheek and another on the right side of his nose. They both stand about 5'4". Lech is married with a daughter while Jaroslaw is a bachelor who lives with his mother and a cat. Now 57, they came to prominence as 13-year-old child stars in the 1962 Polish film The Two Who Stole the Moon, in which they played mischievous but endearing blond brothers. Later, in the 1980s, they joined the Solidarity movement that would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeing Double in Poland | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

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