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Music is everywhere. Cajun zydeco and cool blues vie with big bands and hot jazz. There are marching bands and washboard scratchers, as well as beer hall oom-pah-pah and big-name oomph. Concert performers will run the scale from Willie Nelson and Linda Ronstadt to Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern. Naturally, Al Hirt and Pete Fountain will also drop by to blow a few notes on behalf of the local talent...
...competition for high-caliber graduate programs or prestigious fellowships, any incident involving formal disciplinary bodies increases the possibility of rejection. Consider Harvard Medical School. According to one pre-med tutor, approximately four to six thousand applicants vie for 160 slots each year. Most administrators read 60 applications a night in the screening process, and even the most dedicated admissions officer is hard pressed to spend more than six to 10 minutes on an application. Notices of disciplinary action--even trivial incidents, are flags for rejections...
...accepted, indeed expected, environment for women. Madeline and Lena function almost as a unit in helping each other to explore the world outside. Kury highlights the strength of the women's friendship by subtly contrasting it to the friendship that develops between Costa and Michel. While Michel and Costa vie for the attention of each others' wives on a joint family outing, Michel tells Madeline. "You only look at Lena, never at me." And while each husband tries to trick the other into phony business deals, Lena and Madeline remain loyal friends. Kury, however, does not idealize the relationship between...
Statues at many schools get unwelcome coats of paint the week before the game, something John Harvard is all too familiar with. One of the fiercest small college rivalries in the country is between Wabash and De Pauw Colleges in Indiana. Each year the two schools vie for the Monon Bell--donated to the two schools by the Monon Railroad Co. in 1932--the winner holding the bell until the next game. Not surprisingly, many times students from the losing school have tried to steal the bell. The last successful attempt came in the late '60s when a Wabash student...
...Harvard and Yale, are usually the last game of the year and can make or break a season. Regional or instate rivalries like Texas-Oklahoma or Miami-Florida can be among the most hotly contested. Most of the students have friends at the other schools, and the coaches annually vie for the best recruits in the area. Third are the historic grudges like Army-Navy or Notre Dame-Southern California, non-conference show-downs built on a tradition of excellent football. Any rivalry can turn a season around; a team with a losing record likes nothing better than to trip...