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...High school curricula—so forcefully imposed into conformity by the demands of college admissions offices—still claim to confer upon their pupils a basic body of knowledge and set of skills, those deemed most useful and conducive to success at university. But colleges—at least the elite “liberal arts” colleges like Harvard—recognize no such duty to ensure the content if not the quality of their programs. Employers value liberal-arts graduates, by and large, not for their knowledge but for their intellect—guaranteed...
...knew that, based upon playing a great defense in Yale, they’ve had a lot of baseball scores. They hadn’t allowed a touchdown to the top three Ivy League teams they’d played previous to us. We knew it would be a close game, we knew it’d be a relatively low-scoring game, so we did what we had to win,” Murphy said...
...Gottfried. His shady partner Dodgeson (Justin Durel) was disgusted; the audience loved it.Although the play’s lines and plot were mostly taken from the movie, the resulting spectacle was vastly different. In the absence of special effects, the characters’ awe at the dinosaurs became absurd. Upon arriving at the island and seeing a “Brontosaurus,” Alan Grant (Adam Endres) fell to the ground in hysterical amazement. The Brontosaurus’s legs—two tall pieces of painted cardboard that actors tapped on the ground in sync with thumping sound...
...farm” is actually the concentration camp his father supervises. After finding out about the nearby camp, Elsa forbids Bruno to go exploring behind the house, and Bruno, of course, disobeys her instructions. During his exploration of the camp’s perimeter, he comes upon a boy, Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), sitting on the other side of the large electric fence.Unable to comprehend the gravity of Shmuel’s situation, Bruno is simply content to have found a playmate. Though Bruno is confused by Shmuel’s constant hunger and the strange “pajamas?...
Self-Service Autos. Some airport-based Hertz centers feature the SimplyWheelz program, which allows customers to reserve cars online, then use a kiosk instead of an agent upon arrival to process the rental. The kiosk will print out a rental agreement that tells you which car is yours and where it's parked. You simply find your car and the keys will be inside. The test program has been operating in the Orlando airport for about a year; in November it expanded to airports in Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami and West Palm Beach. On Dec. 1, it will...