Word: jackpots
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...dominant chapter in her life. "It was a great story," she concedes. "I would have liked to read it about someone else." But the tale came to define her, the product of a middle-class family and a university education, as a welfare mom who hit the jackpot. Worse, some papers began using her success as an implied criticism of poor, single women who lacked the gumption to write themselves off the dole. "That's absolute rubbish," Rowling says. "This is not vanity or arrogance, but if you look at the facts, very, very few people manage to write anything...
...HMOs that have been disinclined to offer coverage, however, last week's news offers little incentive to do things differently. Legislative pressure--plus the ongoing threat of more jackpot lawsuits--may yet force the hands of those holdouts. But whether that will be enough for women like Tawnya Geisbush, still awaiting an O.K. from her insurer, is unclear. "I have a fairly small window of time to work with," she says. By the time the company is persuaded, one way or the other, her window may have already closed...
...Across the board, advising is a crap shoot. Some lucky souls land the jackpot, scoring an assistant dean with time on her hands, but don't count on anything more than a confused graduate student. Research the labyrinthine academic bureaucracy for yourself and start thinking soon. At the end of your first year, you'll have to choose a concentration ("majors" are just too plebian...
Across the board, advising is a crap shoot. Some lucky souls land the jackpot, scoring an assistant dean with time on her hands, but don't count on anything more than a confused graduate student. Research the labyrinthine academic bureaucracy for yourself and start thinking soon. At the end of your first year, you'll have to choose a concentration ("majors" are just too plebian...
This year, the Crimson host Vermont and Dartmouth for the final weekend, but no home ice jackpot awaits. The best it can finish is eighth and, at worst, 11th...