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...many non-athletes, the scope of the athletic community is limited to those who participate in highly visible sports—football, men’s and women’s hockey, and men’s and women’s basketball, for instance. Those teams attract the largest fan base and their members have come to typify the “jock” norm at many of the nations’ colleges...
Fochtman added that she thought a broader range of firms attract Harvard students than was true in the past. “It’s not just about McKinsey anymore,” she said...
Chow (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) is a ladies' man. He knows how to attract them and keep them at a distance. Having been burned in an earlier affair, he is loath to reveal to them the ache of lost love at his core. Yet he needs a woman; he seems happy only when he can nod off, in a taxi, on a kind lady's shoulder. He sounds like a weary cynic, but underneath he is like every Wong Kar-wai character: a melancholy romantic. And he has the bruises to prove...
...Moreover, the unofficial President-elect appears to be on a collision course with his mainstay constituents, Indonesia's working class. To attract investment and new factories, the country needs to overhaul labor laws that businessmen say make it too costly to compete with countries such as China. They especially complain about rules that mandate high severance payouts to laid-off workers, which they contend impedes their ability to adapt to changing economic conditions. According to a study by the World Bank, the cost of firing a worker in Indonesia averages 157 weeks of pay, higher than in any other East...
...Planck and the federal and state governments were pulling hard to make it work. When Cenix arrived in Dresden in 2001, it had 11 employees. By the end of that year, it had more than doubled that number and boasted scientists from eight countries. "It has been easy to attract essentially any nationality here, with perhaps two exceptions, who seem to have the strongest prejudices against the former East: West Germans and Americans." Old biases die hard, but in Dresden something new has been born. --By William Boston/Dresden