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...have very different goals in the label. So if a Latina magazine says that I'm a Latina writer, that's okay with me because I think they understand that that's a very diverse group of people. You can be of any race, any religion, any socio-economic background. It's almost a make-believe category. But there was a paper in New York that said something like, Valdes-Rodriguez is bringing the Third World just what it needs - chick lit. I thought, what about me is Third World? This person did not understand. And when...
There have been many misconceptions about the future of advising and advising programs. I want to set the record straight and make our goals and objectives very clear. We want to provide the Class of 2010 with the best advising possible!First, a little background: As a result of the recommendations in the Report of the Committee on Advising and Counseling, the College established the Advising Programs Office (APO) to help coordinate, facilitate, and support undergraduate advising efforts. The first initiatives are, among other things, to establish a peer advising program, recruit more non-resident advisers for the Board...
...make economic policy in the Treasury slot, Zoellick probably doesn't belong there. A more likely candidate now is Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, a 53-year-old Cuban-born former CEO of Kellogg. He has the great virtue of certain confirmation, and boasts the kind of Main Street business background that Bush seems to prefer. But a horse whisperer...
When I began my junior year internship on the derivatives desk of one of New York’s big banks, I asked myself the same question I’m asking now. How does my Harvard liberal arts background prepare me to do anything besides more liberal arts? The answer I got was horrifying. “Don’t worry, you’ll pick it up in no time,” my co-workers said. For all of their unique frustrations, the liberal arts have one saving grace: they never stop being challenging. According...
...January 2004. ?U.S. employers will engage the private agencies and request guest workers,? Pence says. ?In a matter of days, the private agencies will match guest workers with jobs, perform a health screening, fingerprint them and provide the appropriate information to the FBI and Homeland Security so that a background check can be performed, and provide the guest worker with a visa granted by the State Department...