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...addition, firms have begun to take into account the wide variety of professional interests among students, particularly the desire to work for social good. For instance, JP Morgan allows its new analysts to defer employment for two years to participate in Teach For America (see “Those Who Can, Teach?” page 14). Bain, meanwhile, developed The Bridgespan Group, which offers analysis to non-profit organizations, and spun it off six years...
...last letter in the alphabet. 2. Name of the list of students required by admissions to defer for a year—not quite good enough for this year’s class, but just great for the next one. Made up overwhelmingly of legacies...
...formed, Zarqawi named Abu Abdullah Rasheed al Baghdadi (who had until then been known as Abu Hamza al Baghdadi) to head the council, technically putting al Baghdadi in a rank above Zarqawi. This could mean that the new head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq may be expected to defer to the head of the council on strategic goals, setting the two on a potential collision course for power and influence...
...guided trips on comfortable boats, packed lunches and cleaned their catch each day. They caught lots of fish, saw pods of orca whales and watched a school of Dall's porpoises. Angela had worried that father and daughter, both stubborn, might "butt heads," but she found it easy to defer...
...don’t think the majority of the faculty does. They are the ones who are complacent and deserve most of the criticism.” Eventually, the Faculty retreated from the CUE issue, as it has done from so many others this year, and voted to defer the question until the fall.The CUE debacle is, in many ways, vividly illustrative of where the priorities of the bulk of the Faculty truly lie. If students indeed are the focus of this University, as Dean Kirby suggested, then the Faculty certainly did not act in accordance with that vision...