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When Dear John starts, Channing Tatum looks like the likely Ali since he's flat on his back in a soldier's uniform, his blood seeping into a mud puddle. Tatum is John Tyree, a special-forces soldier madly in love with chaste, do-gooder college student Savannah (Amanda Seyfried...
Back in 2006, Lawrence McDonald, a former Lehman Brothers bond trader, remembers, he asked an intern what he was doing during the winter break at the now bankrupt investment bank. The intern, who was a junior in college, said he was trading derivatives for the firm. Surprised, McDonald asked the...
"It was one of the most amazing things," says McDonald, who has since written a book about his time at Lehman, titled A Colossal Failure of Common Sense. "This kid didn't even have a college degree." (See the best business deals of 2009.)
The 18-member committee—comprised of Undergraduate Council members, House Masters, and College administrators—concluded that the break offered students unique opportunities for reconnecting with friends and family, recharging for the spring, and pursuing productive endeavors.
A few committee members suggested providing more structured January programming, similar to MIT’s four-week January “Independent Activities Period,” though it seemed unlikely the College would undertake such a project in the current fiscal climate.