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...arcane legal specialties. Jason found himself assigned to municipal-bond tax law. "A total dead end," he now moans. Even worse, he maintains, at a large firm "associates do the absolute dregs of the work-- six months at a time in a warehouse looking through documents." Following an increasingly well-worn path, Jason fled his big firm in 1984 for a smaller shop, in his case the 32- lawyer firm of Hill Wynne Troop & Meisinger, where, he says, responsibility comes sooner. His conclusion: "All the stuff you put up with at the large firms is not worth...
...listened to by so many weary and perspiring audiences" as the Declaration of Independence. Certainly new records were set this Fourth as the words of Thomas Jefferson about "self-evident" truths and "unalienable rights" were beamed from the base of the Statue of Liberty around the globe. "Those well-worn phrases have never lost their potency and charm," insists Malone, though at the time they were first introduced, Jefferson was still miffed that his original text had been edited by the Continental Congress. Jefferson was not even in the limelight. He was poking around Philadelphia, buying a thermometer and seven...
Roughly 70 percent of tomorrow's graduating seniors will enter into the company of educated men and women with some sort of honors or another. However, honors requirements vary depending on the department. Most laurel-seekers, though, follow the well-worn, traditional path of the written essay. In what is supposed to be a well-written, well-argued essay of anywhere from 50 to 150 pages, theses writers try to sum up their four-year sojourn inside ivy-covered Har- vard through an in depth exploration of sometopic of their choice...
...president of Cannon, and he looked at me kind of funny," Onozuka remembers. "Then I went into the factory and I saw why. All the workers were dressed like me." Onozuka's Odds On line, now in its first season, shows not only his affection for well-worn American work wear but also a witty and idiosyncratic eye for fabrication and shaping that make his clothes look as funny and funky and comfortable as something a bebop horn player might have worn in the '50s to a gig at Birdland. "I don't love any particular American designer," Onozuka says...
...wrong. After a great deal of introduction and adulation, a short, middle-aged man who looked like a cross between Bozo and Einstein shuffled up onto the stage, mumbled something about critics being ants, and withdrew a well-worn copy of his latest work...