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Kramer says he urges his students to find a theme that “will run through their application.” The unique theme will attract attention and, in tying together different aspects of the applicant’s folder, will not seem frivolous...
...didn’t help that this type of advertising, possibly meant to be humorous, is unoriginal in addition to being offensive. Dance clubs and bars often use admission fee discrimination to attract young women—offering ladies’ nights, which can be tied to age restrictions that admit younger women while requiring that men be older. Mather House is no nightclub; it could at least come up with its own advertising tactics to raise money...
...Sachs] will not be able to attract the quality of graduate and undergraduate and undergraduate students that we have at Harvard,” he wrote an e-mail yesterday...
...living-wage laws directly affect only about 1% of workers in communities that have them, but they have indirect effects on other employers that feel they must increase wages to attract employees. The laws give more bargaining muscle to unionized city and county workers, whose ranks have been thinned by the privatization of many government functions. Both directly and indirectly, living-wage laws can drive up government spending. Suffolk legislator Allan Binder, a leading critic of the county's minimum wage for contractors and firms that receive county funds, cites a study that found the county may have to shell...
Shakespeare was not in love when he wrote Titus Andronicus. That seems pretty obvious. He was probably in debt, though, and, at an aspiring 26, needed to attract attention and upstage his contemporaries to find some financial security. That is to say, he needed a slasher matinee, to appease the vile hoard...