Word: although
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...Although violence erupted among the 30,000 protestors in Seattle yesterday (please see story, page A-2), the Boston protest was peaceful. The protestors marched from Park Street to the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, located next to South Station. At the bank, the group heard several speeches condemning the WTO and its practices...
...Although several protestors huddled outside of the second-floor room where the dinner was being held, none attempted to enter or disrupt the dinner...
...Although the dinner took place at Hiller, that organization's chair, Michael A. Kay '01, said the event did not "represent the views of Hillel or of the Harvard Jewish community as a whole...
...annual bonuses, which are based on evaluations from higher-ups. (The median income of American households was $38,885 last year, by the way.) At that salary, Shemmer can afford his portion of the $2,400-a-month apartment he shares with a college friend. Still, everything's relative. Although Shemmer invests his annual bonus, he spends the rest. "I break even every month," he confesses. His three main expenses: rent, alcohol and cabs. Shemmer spends most Friday and Saturday nights partying with friends at "dives" in the East Village, a welcome change from the weekday grind...
...lack of women in the office is especially mysterious since Broadview seems committed to other kinds of diversity--several of the analysts are Indian or East Asian or Middle Eastern (although I don't notice any black analysts). So why the gender imbalance? Analysts speculate that most women are turned off by the aggressive, combative nature of investment banking. "The environment can be a little crass, but it's fun," one analyst tells me. "There's a certain type of woman who can work here, and a certain type who can't." Shemmer echoes that sentiment: "In general I-banking...