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Despite Badaracco’s reservations, however, students who have matriculated at HBS straight out of college seem to be content with their choice...
While she fiercely maintains that she only powders, Kobritz realizes that this sort of publicity is an occupational hazard for a young woman employed by a former world leader from a very different social culture. For the time being, Kobritz is content working for her high-profile boss. “Gorbachev’s a very jolly guy,” says Kobritz. But, the question remains, is he a good kisser...
...race polls, but he was confident that he could run with anyone in the league,” said junior captain Reed Bienvenu. “Columbia’s Steve Sundell quickly separated himself from the rest of the pack, but Alasdair wasn’t content to remain in the chase pack...
...best art contains some journalism. Any nonfiction report on the world around us needs some art, in the form of narrative or metaphor or linguistics, to bring life to mere facts. Concurrently any work of art worthy of the name will report something new (either in content or form) to the audience. Joe Sacco, intrepid cartoonist, has been snooping around the borderlands between these disciplines for several years. His first important series, "Palestine," (1995) about life in the holy land during the first Intefada, gave us something radically new: a comic book that was immediately relevant to the real world...
...instead of joining the WRC, Harvard has been content with membership in a far more lenient, industry-run group. The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is notorious for doing as little as possible. Created by the Apparel Industry Partnership four years ago, the FLA did not issue a public report until June of this year—and when it did so, it refused to release the names or locations of factories, shielding offending factories from any public scrutiny and rendering the reports themselves impossible to verify. Further, the FLA has no provision in its code of conduct against sexual harassment...