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...COME ACROSS AS RUTHLESS. It's important to separate my demeanor from my determination. All along the way, I could have chosen to do something else. We're taking very tough actions that I wish I didn't have to take, but I'll take them knowing that it's going to make us a better company. If it ever gets to the point where I have to eliminate my humanity from the job, then I'll have a real problem...
...male bastions into diverse co-ed institutions. After graduation, I worked briefly as a fundraiser for Yale in Chicago, and I would not infrequently encounter the cold distain and disapproval of alums who had opposed the admission of women. Why hadn't I been a proper young lady and chosen Vassar instead, they wanted to know. These crusty old Blues tended to be equally aghast by the rising admission of black and minority students under the affirmative action programs then taking hold throughout the Ivy League...
...third-party programs, which Mayer assures me were chosen on their merits and not for strategic marketing purposes, Google also offers six of its own applications. Google Desktop, the desktop search program, and Picasa, the photo manager, along with Google Talk voice and messaging program, Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, the ever entertaining Google Earth 3D map of the world, and a new screensaver, which flips your photos onto an idle screen in a pleasant collage...
...awarded a Rhodes Scholarship this year. While Rhodes Scholars from the United States were announced in November 2005, the international Rhodes Scholars were not revealed until this month. Butler said international scholars had to wait to find out if they had been accepted to Oxford after they were chosen by their countries as scholars late last year. Butler is the first Harvard student to be named a Bermuda Rhodes Scholar since Christina E. Storey ’93 received the honor. According to John C.R. Collis, secretary of the Bermuda selection committee, the selection process in Bermuda is similar...
...then they're going to remember that the Coushattas helped them. And they know that if you helped them, well, they know that you can come after them down the road if they don't help you, see?" The Coushattas went for it. On election night, they watched their chosen candidates with excitement and discovered that the $9.3 million they had given Scanlon had produced ... nothing...