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Remember when majoring in, say, French literature meant lots of anxious questions from relatives about how you were planning to support yourself, while a degree in finance was, by contrast, an almost automatic ticket to a decent entry-level corporate job? This spring's new college grads face skyrocketing unemployment, hiring freezes and competition from experienced candidates who have been laid off and are increasingly desperate to find work. Any work. So no matter what you majored in, when it comes to getting hired, all bets are off. Depending on how you look at it, that's either liberating...
...look at her? It's almost as though throughout the book, you view her, though she's an ancestor, as your child? Oh, exactly. She's an acquaintance, a good friend. I think one does develop an affinity to discoveries that one makes. She's so incredibly important in terms of our lives. How do I think of her? It's a very interesting question because if I had the ability to travel back in time, with only one choice of a place to go, my answer is quite simple. I'd want to be standing on the hill overlooking...
...just day dream of Sunday Mornings with George Stephanopolous? Take King’s class, and you too can revel in being called “Congressman.” Committees meet and heatedly discuss legislation. Ambitious legislators run for leadership positions. Almost everything is the same as being a real member of Congress. Except, instead of being an actual elected official, you’re a tool...
This, of course, was Olarte-Hayes, a joint program cellist and Physics concentrator, who supposedly lived in Canaday, but may as well have called Straus basement home. “He prioritizes his cello over almost everything else in his life,” Cohler says...
...enrollment reasons, cutbacks were made in administrative non-salary items, capital and technology, the budget for substitute teachers, and discretionary funds at elementary schools. Turk and her senior staff met with every principal and every department head to discuss the budget and develop a viable plan, she said. Almost all of the principles of Cambridge’s 12 elementary schools were in attendance at the meeting, in addition to the principal of the system’s only high school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin. Nearly three-quarters of the budget—74.5 percent—is allocated...