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...most are less generous with their time. Some revel in privileged positions of “high society,” and just the thought of feeding an old woman at a nursery home or picking up garbage at a park wounds their narcissism. Others structure their extracurriculars around careerist goals, sacrificing their souls into the void of ambition. Amidst la vie occupée, how could they find time to serve others...
...website: "Libé's radiant future is behind you," he wrote. "Adieu!" Several journalists suggest that some blame lies within the newsroom itself, which they say is filled with aging bobos - bourgeois-bohemians - who are increasingly disconnected from a multiethnic France and the country's hard-charging, careerist youth. "We are all the same kinds of people," says Sergent, 53. Like many of the senior journalists, he joined Libération decades ago and lives close by its offices. Deputy editor, Pierre Haski, also 53, says that, with a generational shift in France, the dynamic idealists of Sartre...
...train new hires on blog etiquette. Curt Hopkins of Ashland, Ore., says a public radio station cut short a job interview after the boss read his blog; he was later hired by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to "build buzz online." Trunk, who now blogs about workplace issues on Brazen Careerist, says telling young workers not to blog is like telling a baby boomer not to use the phone. "When major corporations try too hard to block the electronic community," she says, "Generation Y just leaves...
...columnist called Harvard students too careerist to care about Summers’ ouster. We do care. But our faith in the Faculty’s reasons for throwing Summers out has, so far, muted any protest. Unless Faculty members speak up soon, that faith will be put sorely to the test...
Paul Carlin could deal with snow, rain and the gloom of night, but the U.S. Postal Service finally succeeded in staying him from his appointed rounds. After only twelve months as Postmaster General, the 16-year postal careerist, age 54, was fired last week by the Postal Service Board of Governors. His replacement as the 66th successor to Benjamin Franklin: Albert Casey, 65, a tough manager who retired as chairman and chief executive of American Airlines last year...