Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall job recruiting season at Harvard has begun, and it is already bringing out some of the worst aspects of the Harvard experience. First, the bulk of the recruiting is for investment banks and management consulting firms. Their full-page advertisements inundate campus publications, and they pretty much monopolize the Career Forum and the Office of Career Services resources. Pursuing a career in either of these two fields is not necessarily a bad decision, but seniors are presented few other options. In fact, there is a subtle but unmistakable perception among many seniors that taking any job besides...
...Foodstuffs, third, which might just as easily be purchased at neighboring convenience stores with more of a selection. Or maybe a short T-ride or long walk to the Porter Square Star Market might be appropriate for students who want to buy food in bulk at decent prices...
...should respond to its diminished role not by growing its expensive institutional structure, but rather by phasing much of it out, and by expanding the offerings that students find useful. Programs which target the interests of students by providing experiences distinct from those offered at Harvard should receive the bulk of Radcliffe's funding. The mentor program, the Lyman Common Room and the externship program are prominent examples...
...leader of the new Democratic Party, which is promoting its version of a "kinder, gentler" Japan. Depending on the political party, plans for administrative reform run from a polite overhaul of the Ministry of Finance--which bears most of the blame for the financial crisis--to moving the bulk of government out of Tokyo...
...slide show were collected in a much talked about book, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. And what Goldin has learned since then about the inexplicable pleasures of life is evident in a wonderful recent shot of her mother laughing. But when her own life's work faces you in bulk, at least in the 275-picture bulk hauled up by the Whitney, the slack starts to show. Goldin is a diarist, with a diarist's instincts for the ways into her own saga but also the same weakness for the dull stretches...