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...wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library."--Will Hunting, "Good Will Hunting...
...Radcliffe's had dropouts too. Both country singer Bonnie Raitt (woulda been '72) and actress Elisabeth Shue (coulda been '88) lived in Cabot House--Raitt while it was still known as South House. Shue transfered from Wellesley, stayed only a year and has since been somewhat incognito in the alumni world. Aside from the occasional pornographic web page, it's hard to find much of anything about her. Raitt, on the other hand, having left after three years for a lucrative record deal, still remembered her alma mater fondly enough to write in her 20th anniversary alumni book...
First the speaking fees. Robert Barnett is the contract negotiator for vice-presidential losers Geraldine Ferraro and Dan Quayle and First Lady coulda-been Kitty Dukakis. In his calculation, an articulate candidate who departs the field with an honorable discharge--no scandals, a statistically detectable base of voter support--"can do five or six speeches a month, at fees ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 a speech, for a year at a minimum." Arithmetic: $600,000 to $2.1 million in the first year...
...tube. But she is also warier, savvier and funnier than her television persona. "I've had a good run," she says, "but it doesn't seem like I'm working any harder than usual. Maybe I'm just enjoying myself more. My staff is always kidding me about my 'coulda, shoulda, woulda'. Well, I think there's been less of that lately." Does she ever take a vacation? "Yes, last spring I went to France. A walking tour of Provence. Rained the whole time...
...Shoulda, coulda, didn...