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Together, OCS and the recruiters have collaborated so that procuring a job as a consultant or investment banker is easier then applying for a Freshman seminar. OCS should compensate, helping ease the research, interview and placement process in other fields. Why not publish a list on the OCS website of names and addresses of contacts in schools, museums, magazines and newspapers, religious organizations and government jobs...
...dinner where Jiang spoke, I sat next to Liu Mingkang, a former Chinese central banker who now heads a large financial corporation. He knows well the vagaries of Chinese freedoms; during the Cultural Revolution, he spent 10 years banished to the countryside, where he learned English by listening to the Voice of America on his secret transistor radio while working in the paddies. Now he is planning for his company to set up an online system for stock trading and banking transactions. "As economic freedoms expand," he says, "we are inevitably securing more social freedoms and the ability to exchange...
...either love them or hate them," says Bill Kimpton of Schrager's work. He's a former investment banker whose $400 million-a-year, 28-property boutique chain is one of a host of competitors, large and small, who are out to spoil Schrager's good time. Kimpton caters to less image-conscious business travelers who still prize a little personality, including free tarot-card readings, back rubs or goldfish. The San Francisco-based dynamo is establishing a growing national presence, converting bank buildings and department stores in places like Denver and Portland into small, Euro-style hotels...
...GWYNNE usually operates from Texas as TIME's Austin bureau chief, but for the past few weeks he's been stationed in New York City reporting on laundered Russian money and its alleged appearance at the Bank of New York. An international banker before joining the magazine in 1988, Gwynne brings rare insight into the world of global finance. And he needs it to follow the tangled trail of tainted cash as it trundles through the world's banks. Of the current situation he says, "I think we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg of how much illegal...
...main reason I ended up in Applied Math was that the thought of being yet another lawyer or investment banker was more depressing than the thought of writing COBOL," he says. "It wasn't a deeply reasoned decision...