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...next season he must continue to impress as agents and scouts roam the sidelines, scrutinizing his every step to assess his potential.Whether or not the team representatives see his promise, Dawson says that he will play professional ball post-graduation. And if all goes as planned, his career will begin with an NFL squad.—Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro can be reached at mshapiro@fas.harvard.edu...
...school pool should be less competitive if more people are going into the job market,” Adams said. Although he was not familiar with the NACE survey, Adams said that he “heard things were looking promising” for his graduating class. NACE will begin its job-outlook survey for the Class of 2007 late this summer. While it is impossible to predict its results, Koncz said she is optimistic. “I’d like to think that this trend will continue...
...groups began gleefully circulating nettlesome quotes to reporters on Tuesday. Media Matters for America put together a cheeky "Suggested questions for the White House press corps to ask on Tony Snow's first day." A column by Snow last September, at the height of the Hurricane Katrina fallout, said: "Begin with the wimp factor. No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.... His presidential report card already shows an ?A' on foreign policy, but with the exceptions of tax policy and judicial selections, he remains a domestic-policy cipher...
...Unlike those attacks, the Dahab blasts did not spark a mass exodus of tourists from the Sinai. But some Egyptians were worried that the latest terror spree may cause future holiday cancellations. "We were just waiting for the season to begin, and now this happens," said Tareq Ibrahim, 33, an Egyptian masseur, as he stood on the promenade watching the cleanup effort. "The terrorists want to kill tourism in Egypt...
...share that view. "Look here - the way you talk about Maoists, it's as if they were monsters," one of Hada's customers snaps. "Now, one of the four of us," he gestures around him, "is a Maoist. Can you guess which one?" Two of the men drinking tea begin chuckling: it's not clear if this is a joke. Hada explains that Bhaktapur, like most of the country, has often been attacked by the Maoist guerillas - but that the locals have learned to live with it. "Maoists are just people like everyone else," Hada says. "Most of them...