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...will be the YouTube of video résumés? Jobster, an online job board, is teaming up with social-networking site Facebook to launch a career site featuring video résumés in March. Vault.com another job board, concluded its first video-résumé contest last week, its prize a shot at (what else?) an investment-banking job. Smaller players 62ndview, HireVue and Resumevideo are all launching widely this spring. Workplace bloggers speculate that YouTube plans to start its own video-résumé channel, although the company is noncommittal. Says Jason Goldberg, CEO of Jobster...
...intelligent designers.Olson described his challenge as finding “a charismatic voice for the world of science.†His film casts the conflict between evolution and intelligent design as one of politics rather than science, in which the key weapon, as in any political contest, is likeability. According to Olson, the intelligent designers are gaining ground not because their arguments are more compelling, but because they have catch phrases to back them up. The scientific community, on the other hand, struggles to be comprehensible putting themselves at risk of following the dodo into extinction.The most obvious comparison...
Harvard held a commanding lead for all three days of the contest, highlighted by a number of swimmers achieving personal bests...
...back-to-the-basket offensive attack was fatal. With no way to slow down their own offense by pounding the ball inside, Harvard was forced to speed its game up to match Brown’s quick-tempo attack, allowing it to comfortably dictate the pace of the contest. Sophomore Evan Harris, who looked like he was beginning to break out when he scored 18 points and hauled in 11 rebounds in a win against Cornell two weekends ago, had only five points on three shots. It appeared as if the Bears had scouted Harris perfectly—they routinely...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—There were penalties. There were fights. There were lead changes, bad bounces, and missed chances. There were last-second heroics.But in the end, there was no winner.In a contest that crammed an entire season’s worth of drama into 65 minutes, the Harvard men’s hockey team (10-15-2, 8-10-2 ECAC) relinquished a hard-fought two-goal lead in the game’s final seconds, settling for a 6-6 tie with Brown (9-12-6, 5-11-4) at Meehan Auditorium...