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...myself cancelled my LSAT because I was sick the day I took the test, but I can't help wondering if I would have suffered the same doubts as my friend had I received a bad score. It's entirely conceivable; those feelings aren't unknown to me. In fact, I would be surprised if more than a small minority of Harvard students were entirely comfortable in their intellectual skin. I like to call it the "I'm the mistake" syndrome--that anxious, ephemeral pang we all entertain for a moment and then dismiss, only to feel guilty that...
...what we would be meeting about. Her stonewalling was beginning to annoy me. I wrote back with a list of questions I had concerning the Ad Board, its processes and the possibility of appeal. I then, once again, politely asked her to tell me before we met what these unknown circumstances were so I could look into them. Her reply to this message was terse and again begged the question...
...picture that launched his career came to this then unknown, 24-year-old Southerner in a dream. One night in 1954, by his own account, Johns dreamed of painting a large American flag, and the next morning he got up and began to do so. He would play with the flag motif for several decades more, rendering the Stars and Stripes in wax encaustic paint on newspaper collage, in oil on canvas, in bronze, pencil and lithography. His fascination with it came, in part, from his very nuanced and ironic feelings about the function of art, particularly in America...
...Galliano, 36, and Alexander McQueen, just 27. A charming, egregiously talented pixie of a man, Galliano took over the house of Givenchy last year but has already moved on to preside over Christian Dior, considered--along with Chanel--the most important French fashion empire. McQueen, an East Ender previously unknown outside the trendier London precincts, was named to succeed his countryman at Givenchy...
Though a political novice, Antoine is not running like one; his primary win was decisive and unexpected (an unknown over a city councilwoman). Well spoken, educated and charismatic, Antoine says he is fiscally conservative and socially progressive, part of a "new generation" of legislators. In a district that's 41% African American, his willingness to talk about racism gives him a chance to build broad support needed to win this district...