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...Along came the curveball. Gateway's personal computers, marketed in cow-spotted boxes, lost their appeal. Sales tumbled; stores closed. The company's stock price plummeted. Fewer customers meant less customer support. When the Kansas City operation finally closed in 2006, Stevens was among the last employees let go. Now, for the first time in her life, she's finding it difficult to talk her way into...
...University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill estimates that one in 10 women between the ages of 25-45 suffer from eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia, while a total of three in four suffer from disordered eating. Other studies suggest, unsurprisingly, that the rates are even higher among college students. I’ll be honest. Disordered eating is not lethal. It is not recognized as an official psychiatric disorder. And it is highly correlated with perfectionism, the single trait that best characterizes Harvard students. But this doesn’t mean that suffering from this condition...
...suggested, that pushed it forward. Almost every choice made by Friedkin for “The French Connection” was either motivated by intuition or forced by circumstance. Hackman was only considered after a number of other actors were unavailable or turned the role down—among them, Jackie Gleason. Friedkin chose cinematographer Owen Roizman—who received an Oscar nomination for the film—without ever having seen a frame of film he had shot. “As a filmmaker, the one thing I did pick up somehow was to trust my instincts...
...amped up about that, and Richard Hill is looking to repeat as winner of the B bracket.”West, ranked No. 3 in the country entering the tournament, will play in the A bracket and is Harvard’s best chance at claiming a National title. Among those entered in the tournament are Princeton’s Mauricio Sanchez and Trinity’s Baset Chaudhry, the only players who have defeated West this season .“I’m very excited to get another shot at the two guys who beat me earlier this...
...interview last October. “I had a very fine experience, but I was always conscious that most students did not have that view.”Many of Kagan’s former classmates cite large class size as the driving factor behind the widespread grumbling among the student body. Compared to other top-tier schools such as Yale or Stanford—which have been characterized as having happier students—Harvard’s class size is roughly three times as large.“It was easy to think you were...