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Although I wouldn’t admit it in an interview, as far as my interest in finance, I was a bit shaky on the details too. I knew that I wanted to try something new, and that I wanted to do something quantitative—I am an economics concentrator after all. My ultra-liberal friends dismissed my interest as selling out. I could “work for the man” if I wanted, but I couldn’t complain when they made me buy them dinner. While I don’t mind jumping...
...cherish Peck is to admit nostalgia for an era when popular and political culture could champion humanist ideals without smirking. If our time were not so facetious, so often corrupt, that time--and this man--would not seem so precious...
...Kidnapping for ransom is Bihar's biggest and, these days, only industry. Between 1992 and 2001, the last year for which figures are available, local police recorded 24,338 cases of kidnapping in the state, an average of more than six a day. Officers admit the real figure may be 10 times higher than that: kidnappers typically threaten to return if the victims go to the authorities. Police say Bihar has more than 100 kidnap gangs, and they don't prey solely on the rich or famous. In Salahuddin's district of Champaran, the center of Bihar's bandit country...
...that remixes Yoko Ono's music, Walking on Thin Ice, has topped the dance-club play chart [MUSIC, May 26]. I'm ashamed to admit that, like many other Beatles fans, I hated Yoko until the day John Lennon was shot. It was only after his tragic death, upon seeing the film Imagine, that I realized just how deep and genuine their love for each other was. I don't think the world knew how to embrace true soul mates. John's love for Yoko was naked and raw, and we turned away out of ignorance. We were unhappy that...
...According to the intelligence official, Mas Selamat's immigration papers showed that he had been inside Thailand for four days and then re-entered Malaysia, possibly with several traveling companions. "We had no [immigration] records for [those companions]," he said. "And we have to admit we don't know what they were doing here...