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...recruiter I would probably try to remember the names of the students who came in suits when they were informed that the event was casual. Then I'd throw their resumes in the trash when I received them. I certainly wouldn't be looking to hire any uptight Harvard students. But then again, that's probably why I won't get a job in business. Maybe the over-dressed weenies really are more likely to get the best jobs...
...fault for the kind of trash the public is exposed to every day, whether it is on television or in the papers? Is it Americans' insatiable appetite for anything juicy, the corruption in government or the media's ethical deterioration...
...presidential haircut. It is irrelevant whether the press constitutes the cause or the effect. What we know is that journalists have not risen above the desire for gossip; they have not embraced the ethic of their trade; instead, they have kow-towed to the public thirst for all the trash not fit to print...
Those of us who grew up in the Midwest had trouble playing without a net, so every Sunday one of us stood on the playground's trash can and taped our own net to the rim. For weeks the park-department employee in charge of the playground eyed this scene sullenly...
...retreated, but the next Sunday he told us we could no longer stand on the trash can to reach the net. These days, having listened to oratory from both Republicans and Democrats on the subject, we would have known how to respond. "The era of Big Government is over!" we would have said, or "We do not want government bureaucrats meddling in our lives!" Those days, we simply brought a stepladder from home...