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...with internships in the business and finance worlds. The word “eRecruiting,” however, has become synonymous with the entire process, culminating in several rounds of interviews and all-expenses-paid trips to company offices. And since January, every would-be consultant and investment banker, as well as a number of students who are just “keeping their options open,” has been trying to score a prestigious summer internship. The result? 469 students with 2,031 on-campus interviews, and counting. That, at least, explains all the suits...
...Harriett Woods, 79, Missouri politician whose relentless campaigning and razor-thin loss in a 1982 bid for the U.S. Senate, despite being overwhelmingly outspent, inspired the creation of the grass-roots fund-raising group Emily's List; of leukemia; in University City, Mo. Woods won the Democratic nomination over banker Burleigh Arnold, who had the backing of party leadership. Her high-profile candidacy, which culminated in a loss to John Danforth by 26,247 votes, sparked Emily's List--short for Early Money Is Like Yeast--which in the last election cycle raised $46 million for women candidates nationwide...
...populace at all levels," according to a royal statement. Many Thais, including top economists, aren't quite sure what that means on a practical level - "none of us really understand it, but we can't say anything because it's His Majesty's idea," one Bangkok investment banker told me. But it's safe to assume that a $29,800 meal doesn't hew to the middle path. (In their defense, the organizers of the feast say most of the money raised will go to charity...
...case in point. Photographer Daniel Philippe has looked again at 19 of these fairyland fortresses, both from the sky and the ground, in snow and in bloom. There is formidable Chambord, which may have been planned by Leonardo da Vinci, and delicate Azay-le-Rideau, the creation of a banker who went too far when he mixed state money with his own. The aerial exposures suggest that some of the chteaux were designed for the eyes of god: the intricate geometry of the Renaissance gardens at Villandry can be fully appreciated only from aloft...
Serbia's membership in the European Union is blocked by its failure to arrest indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic. Where is he, and what do you plan to do about him? I am currently a banker, I do not know where he is. But finding him is at the very top of our agenda. If we are to achieve our ambitious E.U. goals, we need to be a credible partner. This credibility can only be maintained if we do our absolute best to arrest Mladic...