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...This is discouraging for those of us interested in pursuing government jobs. We’re conscientious citizens, but we also want to be rewarded for a job well done. If Washington wants to encourage bright students to spend their careers in government, therefore, rather than marketing the public sector to us more aggressively, it should lay out a clearer path to success from within the bureaucracy...
...Such external appointments are daily business in the public sector. They are not inherently bad—indeed, few would doubt that Sunstein, the most frequently cited legal scholar in America, is not qualified for his post. However, these indirect career paths do discourage bright, ambitious students from signing on for a career in public service...
...Calling financial firms the bright light of the market would be a very nice way to put it," says Tobias Levkovich, chief U.S. equity strategist of Citigroup. "But what is happening is that last year was the financial crisis, and this year is an economic crisis...
...only do we get insights from bright students, but we get to engage more widely with the Harvard community,” he said...
...just stepped off the pages of One Hundred Years of Solitude, speaks of his 18 children and 30 grandchildren, many named some iteration of José. Characters like these aren't hard to find in Cartagena. And the cobblestone, bougainvillea-draped Old Town, with its bright colors, 18th century mansions and roving salsa bands, is like a spiffed-up fusion of New Orleans and Havana. (See the 100 best novels of all time...