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...mingle satisfactorily with your upwardly mobile peers when you return in the fall, your job must meet a number of criteria. You can’t, say, work at Ben & Jerry’s. Unless it’s in the creative marketing strategies department. After a dispiriting bout of cover letters dispatched into internet oblivion, I contemplated applying to work on a cruise ship. But then I’d have to write a book about my experiences. Forget the demise of childhood. What happened to summer? Summer was supposed to be when you went to the beach...
...spinster and her domineering mother - won the then 26-year-old a handful of awards and the first of many Tony nominations. Since then, he has been selling out theaters from Broadway to the West End with seven plays, all written in a 10-month spurt during a bout of unemployment...
...remains smooth and straight, the car roars ahead. But throw in some potholes and a tight turn, and the wheels come off. Factories have been able to increase output in recent years because the global economy has been on a tear. The 2004-07 period saw the second strongest bout of global growth on record--which translated into strong demand for cheap Chinese-made products. But this era may be ending. Most economists are forecasting a significant slowdown in worldwide GDP growth in 2008. This slowdown, predicts Lehman Brothers economist Sun Ming-chun, will prove to be the "unmasking...
...dreams of a national title.The Harvard sophomore managed two more wins in the consolation draw, including a 3-2 victory over second-ranked Dustin Schlatter, but fell in the semis to No. 4 Jordan Burroughs. These efforts earned O’Connor a spot in the fifth-place bout, but after a grueling tournament, the All-American refused to jeopardize his knee further and took a medical forfeit, ending his season with a sixth-place finish.“[O’Connor’s] will is incredible,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss said...
...help the Crimson to a 2-1 lead. Nguyen and Saint John’s Asaf Honig both wore protective knee sleeves, but the Harvard captain showed no sign of ailing legs as he clubbed his opponent 6-1,6-0 at four singles. Kumar, suffering from a bout of pink eye, also seemed undeterred as the number two player mixed deft volleys and timely serving to earn the Crimson’s second point with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Gustavo Loza. The largest transition, though, appeared in the play of freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien, who took...