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Their heads were gray or bald, their bellies were a little thinner or flabbier, and their jowls had dropped. High-collared, broad-fronted shirts had replaced the girls'gaping, sexy V-necks, and the boys, now old men, wore thick bifocals. Some of them were speaking more slowly than before, others laughed more softly, and one or two, tamed by years of being too shy, had resigned themselves to silence. A few seats at the table were empty. But those who remained kept talking and laughing, smiling at each other as if to say, Time has passed, but I have...
...George Lucas tell yet another interviewer that although we have progressed technologically as a race, we have not evolved emotionally. We haven't evolved emotionally, George? You're a 54-year-old man making a movie about a bad guy named "Darth Maul." Compared to Lucas, I'm John Gray, buddy. And to top it all off, it turns out this movie doesn't even have Leonardo DiCaprio in it. Like I'm going to see that more than five times...
...Katie Gray, 30, is finishing her first year of business school at Stanford University; she is eight months pregnant. Gray had been married for three years when she told her husband that she wanted to move from their home in Washington to go to business school in California. "It was a really tough decision for both of us," Gray says. "He was on track to become a partner at a firm in Washington. He didn't want to pick up and move, and I don't blame...
...schools are increasingly choosing applicants with more years of work experience. In the late 1980s the average business-school student was 24 years old; now the average age is 29. "For lots of women, this is a time when they're making decisions about family and marriage," says Gray. "People are in committed relationships, and traditionally it's the woman's career that takes the back seat." Gray's didn't, but she did spend her first four months at school on her own, until her husband was able to join her in California in December. Until the research...
...while the jury is out, Aimee Martin is hearing stories from women like Gray every day. A second-year student at Harvard Business School, Martin fields questions for the admissions office from women applicants. "Women call worrying about the timing of having children, debating about whether to leave a successful career. The work/life issue comes up a lot," says Martin, who shuttles to St. Louis, Mo., on weekends to visit her husband, a surgical resident at a hospital there. "It's been a huge sacrifice to be apart," she says of her own case, "but I do believe...