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First came the crash. Now come the ripples. At business schools around the country, 'tis the season for MBA recruiting. But for Wall Street wannabes who banked on school yielding a six-figure finance job, bitter reality is setting in. Offers from financial firms are slowing, as budgets get slashed and freezes take effect...
...infirmities afflicted the international economic order in the 1920s: the massive destruction World War I inflicted on key economies like those of Britain, France and Germany, and the lingering distortions in trade, capital flows and exchange rates occasioned by the punitive Treaty of Versailles. Memories of the war's bitter fighting and vengeful conclusion had rendered the international atmosphere toxic, making a mockery out of the one transnational institution to have emerged from the conflict, the League of Nations. Adding to those abundant ills was the near religious faith in the sacred orthodoxies of laissez-faire and the gold standard...
...stomach.) These are the people who are hopelessly easy to please.I am undeniably a member of the second camp.When I was three I craved garlic string beans and green olives. My favorite treat was a bar of Rolos with a cup of black coffee. Favorite dish? Beef with Chinese bitter melon and black bean sauce. Call me precocious, but the real term for me is “nontaster.”As a nontaster, I belong to about 25% of the population who have muted oral sensory experiences. Among other things, it means that I cannot taste a chemical...
...public figure. Question: How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: You don’t know?This obsession is insidious. Science has proven that musical taste is a perfectly valid personality indicator, but the hipster persona has boiled it down to a dark, bitter, cynical syrup. Speaking as someone who is more confident in her personality than in her playlist, this cannot be healthy.Perhaps you think I’m overstating the level of the obsession. If commercials and studies haven’t convinced you that the playlist has grown too large in the cultural...
...position by Governor Sarah Palin, Monegan quickly asserted that the reasons for his firing were unethical and unjustified. He maintained he was dismissed because he refused to succumb to pressure from the Palin administration to fire Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, who was at that time going through a bitter divorce and custody battle with Palin's younger sister, Molly McCann. Monegan claimed the governor's office had contacted him more than two dozen times pressuring him to fire Wooten...