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...After graduating in 2004, Janet Kim spent a year on the production team for the design label Proenza Schouler—a door- opening opportunity for which she can only account for by her “faith in God”—and found that if she wanted to launch a career in the fashion world, she was going to have to do it right. That meant going back to school to study couture, and starting from the ground floor up. But not without a few moments of uncertainty...
...spent an hour soaked in the pomp and circumstance of Tercentenary Theater (most bootleg theater ever, btdubs!). I was shivering half of the time, praying for short speeches the other half of the time, and being shushed by my neighbors for praying too loudly the other half of the time...
...Livesey, who spent ten years researching the origins of civil society and believes the idea to be a “weak” and “terrible” one, is working on his own republican model of democracy...
...When undergraduates pay their $75 student activities fee each year, they do so under the assumption that the money will be spent on their activities, not saved for a rainy day. And even if the UC were within its rights to pinch pennies, it’s difficult to imagine what exactly a $63,791.21 rainy day would look like. Perhaps, the UC’s bean-counters will argue, this month’s showdown with University Hall is exactly the sort of cataclysm that savings ought to provide...
...amount is too much for a rainy day, and too little for a hurricane. Even if innocent clerical errors, late deposits from University Hall, and the UC’s emergency reserves are taken into account, there remain tens of thousands of dollars that ought to have been spent that were not. The miraculous shortfall-turned-windfall is almost certainly produced by a blend incompetence and unwarranted over-cautiousness, and not prescience, on the UC’s part...