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...Adam Wasilewski ENTREPRENEUR Many of those who left Poland over the past few years did so because they couldn't find a job. Adam Wasilewski, 38, left because he couldn't create enough of them. Owner of a stoneware company in Warsaw, he found that increasingly his clients were not paying their bills. "I couldn't plan an expansion," Wasilewski recalls. "I had the money, but only on paper." Around the same time, a contract came up to apply interior cladding to a high-rise at London's Canary Wharf. He took it. Wasilewski then moved his family to Britain...
...Adam Goldenberg ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...interview before the banquet, Lambda Co-President Adam R. Sorkin said that his organization was impressed by SLDN’s continued efforts to lift the ban. When SLDN was created in 1993, its mission was to end harassment and discrimination against military personnel that were directly affected by “don’t ask, don’t tell...
...Connor’s sixth loss in an impressive rookie season, in which he became the winningest freshman in the history of Harvard’s wrestling program. Preston, the No. 3 seed, took third at 133 lb.After winning the first three bouts, he came up against second-seeded Adam Frey of Cornell and lost in overtime, 9-7.Losing by four going into the final period, Preston made a comeback to tie the match at seven going into the sudden victory round, where Frey won the match after scoring a takedown.“I had a pretty tough weight class...
...contributors to the volume usually describe their own methods, always cautioning readers that the key to literary journalism is finding your own voice, your own way of doing things. Take the four opinions about whether or not a writer of creative nonfiction should use a tape recorder. Adam Hochschild ’63 writes, “I’m deeply grateful for the invention...it takes care of the soundtrack in a far more accurate way than I can by taking notes.” Gay Talese considers the device sacrilegious: “I espouse patience...