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Once he has tracked the evolution of the phenomenon, Gabler shows us the extent to which Americans have gone to sculpt and alter their own identities, with examples such as the market for professionally written term papers, a retirement community in Florida designed to offer its residents a 24/7 Disney World experience, celebrity quick-change artists like Madonna and Michael Jackson and a woman who underwent 20 plastic surgeries to remake herself in the image of a Barbie doll. He points out the difference between the "inner-directed" character valued in America's past--composed of personal qualities and goals...
...word "freshman" is not overtly offensive, but according to feminists it carries the presumption that everyone to whom it refers is male, no matter how vigorously one protests that it is being used in a gender-neutral sense. Therefore, campus feminists campaigned for, and the College adopted, the term "first-year...
Williams characterized her 10-year term as president as "one of the greatest experiences of [her] life...
...encouraged for people this year [looking for jobs], but the most important thing is the long-term trends of the job market," Guillory said. "I'm not convinced the job crisis is over...
...single-term, chronological survey becomes altogether unmanageable," Koerner writes in an e-mail message. "One would end up doing nothing but establishing ten or twelve chronologies and have little time to talk about individual works or issues...