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...skeletons, we are confident that we are going to hit some big home runs in this year’s e-recruiting season. We weren’t always so gung-ho about the soul-selling world of investment banking, but this summer we decided to give it a whirl, and since then we have been completely converted. We applied for some hardcore finance jobs in Milwaukee, and with glowing recommendations from Derek C. Bok we were soon accepted into the Junior Teller program at Second National Community Bank. We began by scrapping everything we learned at Harvard...
...only a flat place in the dark. But for a few nights in late summer 2003, it blazed in neon, smelled like smoked sausage, spun sugar and blue-ribbon hogs and rang with screams of people who had bought a ticket to be scared. They rode the Tilt-A-Whirl, browsed tents of prizewinning fruit preserves and lined up for the cute-baby contest, and if there is such a thing as a time machine on earth, it must be powered by the Ferris wheel at the Wirt County Fair in West Virginia. Back from the war, Jessica Lynch asked...
...there will be the boarded House of Fun. And leaves will tumble past the Whirl-O-Ride. I will move on, content as anyone, And then will see her walking to my side, My mouse, my girl. She will not speak, but smile, And we will walk together, for a while...
...Still, not everybody who can do accents can do everything else she can. Brave is the person who tries to analyze what makes Streep's performances so remarkable. But Tony Kushner, who wrote Angels in America and is translating Mother Courage, gives it a whirl. "She does that weird thing that really great actors can do that really good actors can't. It's the ability to do two, three or four things at once. To create these moments of human behavior that are so layered and so deep that they're ambivalent: confusion and contradiction, heartbreak...
...have paid enough attention to other ways of “cutting the cake.” The Committee on General Education did consider a number of creative new rubrics for general education, and part of me would like to see them give this line of thinking one more whirl...