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...meant to be another promotion to hype the show. “The idea is to get people, get the campus excited about fashion,” explains Eleganza committee member Anthony A. Pino ’10. Pino helped create the backdrop for the contest, a sharp white background with “Eleganza” printed in diagonal lines. “We wanted to give it an awards show feel, like the Oscars,” said Pino. But despite the glitzy setup and the enthusiastic efforts of publicity head Dara Johnson ’10, things...
Sujay R. Jaswa, an HBS student and Princeton undergraduate, has been both impressed and humbled by his veteran peers. “Most of us come from the Ivory Tower background, standard corporate America, big banks in Asia, but the reality is that very few of us have had experience with anything that requires real human sacrifice,” said Jaswa...
...According to Markell, Cho sailed through the background check. He presented three forms of identification - a Virginia driver's license, checks imprinted with the same address and a U.S. immigration document proving that he was a permanent resident of the U.S. He used his own credit card for the gun, which retailed...
...Markell said the salesman ran an instant background check through the Virginia State police computer system, which also checks federal records. He added that he and his salesmen look for odd behavior. "You can't believe how much we screen people," he said. "We look to see people that are coming in to buy guns. Somebody that ducks behind a stand and starts whispering to somebody else he's with, we're not likely to deal with...
...Barker said. "We did not make an recommendation [as to whether he was fit to remain on campus or in school]. That was not our role." Neither the campus police department's nor the hospital's records on Cho were part of the material accessed by the state's background-check system for firearms purchases...