Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, the CIA will begin recruiting on the Harvard campus. But a simple informational meeting might not be enough. "The War for Talent," a recent study released by McKinsey and Co. at the request of the State Department, found that competition for intelligent, talented and internationally oriented recruits will be fierce over the next two decades. Many of the brightest are not entering the workforce with hopes of becoming Bond but rather Gates or Soros. Is it the money? Partly, but not completely...
...Wednesday night, Todd E. Plants '01 mounts the fourth floor of Holworthy Hall to begin an evening of campaigning. Like other candidates for the Undergraduate Council presidency, Plants is focused on winning first-year votes...
...that are painfully obvious to most anybody. The subtitle of the volume is Notes from Our Century, and Gordimer makes a case study of historical progress out of her native South Africa, taking us from the world of apartheid through redemption to the post-apartheid era. But her words begin to sound false: not the falseness of lies, but of emotional untruth...
...stage to the conductor, we easily suspend disbelief. Such small touches also draw attention from the show's more uneven edges--which are few and far between. For instance, the stage is just a little too cluttered. In terms of width, the Agassiz Theater is a small space to begin with, but coupled with the fact that almost half of the performing space is reduced with the ship's quarter deck, the outcome is a cluttered stage. In crossing the ship, the sailors must take great pains to avoid the females' hoopskirts (their costumes are appropriately gaudy, but slightly oversized...
...together and suffocating Bleckners canvases, no one would be surprised to discover that he is the president of the Community Research Initiative on AIDS. The bubbles themselves look like knots tied on a rope, but condensed, without any space between them. Covering the entire surface of a canvas, they begin to look organic, slimy, alive; indeed, they look like cells. The use of transparent color to isolate certain groups of cells relates directly to AIDS; the identification of certain vessels indicates foreigners, intruders within a common landscape...