He studied film at Emerson College and moved to Los Angeles after graduating in 1998, with no job.

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Many Emerson College students say they get their political news and analysis from "The Daily Show, " NBC's "Saturday Night Live, " HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher, " and others.

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Mara is a senior at Emerson College and her fear this past summer was not whether she would get an internship but whether she would accept the right opportunity.

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Collins, a 20-year-old sophomore at Boston's Emerson College, learned soon after he joined the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity that his insurance company declined to cover surgery to remove breast tissue to flatten his chest.

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Autobiography of a Yogi, a book Jobs claimed to have read annually since he was in college, quotes Emerson several times.

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From Harvard to Brandeis to Boston College to BU to Tufts to Emerson and beyond, this town specializes in post-secondary education.

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