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David Kaiser ’69, who advised Alter’s thesis, remembers Alter the college senior as “quite low-key, mid-western, with a great political background having grown up in a very political atmosphere...
...Louis already had an extreme talent as a writer, which reflected his upbringing in Poland,” Chace says. “His experience and background was, of course, so different from ours...
...untainted by association with the U.S. Though the pieces of Iraq's first post-Saddam government may fall into place this week, it's anyone's guess how long it will hold together. "It's a very complicated business," Brahimi told TIME. "And we're doing that against a background of very little communication between the people of Iraq themselves...
...rockers Pavement, this Washington State trio has produced its first truly lovely song. Lead singer Isaac Brock crows about various misadventures that inevitably melt away ("Even if things get a bit too heavy/We'll all float on") while the rest of the band makes bouncy, happy noises in the background. It's how Nick Drake's Pink Moon might have turned out if ol' Nick had been just a little happier. Perfect for a backyard sing-along as summer's last party winds down...
...proving a key tool in grooming the second generation of Indian hoteliers. Unlike, say, the construction business, hospitality is an immigrant-heavy industry with a ready infrastructure of formal training. Over the past five years or so, as a new generation has come of age, students of Indian background have flooded hotel schools like the one at Cornell University. There they learn how to broker acquisitions, arrange complicated financing, set up room-booking technology and modernize marketing. Many take internships and first jobs in related fields like real estate or investment banking. The training helps "prepare them to take...