Word: preparedness
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October 13 (a Friday, as it were) was the final exposure for the Ferranti-Dege camera shop, a photo lover’s haven. Afficionados of silk-lined suits binged on the final sale at Stonestreets as it prepared to close. And Toscanini’s addicts must now travel...
As the list dwindled, the search committee flirted with higher education’s top brass: John W. Etchemendy, provost of Stanford; Amy Gutmann ’71, the former Princeton provost who had taken the reins at the University of Pennsylvania; Alison F. Richard, a former Yale provost who...
After leaving my last final exam, I expected to feel a great sense of accomplishment—a sense that I was prepared to exit the academic bubble and enter the real world. Instead, I felt about an hour’s worth of relief.
Thirty years ago, perhaps, but today Shinobu is anything but ordinary. The proper Japanese meal, prepared by the mother and eaten on the tatami mat by the entire family, is increasingly rare, thanks to long hours at work and at school, and social changes that have resulted in more women...
At the beginning, Scheck and Neufeld had modest goals. But with a staff of six, the team wasn't prepared for the onslaught of interest from convicts. "We never realized we would be getting thousands of requests each year," Neufeld says. As the full-time staff grew - today the team...