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...while the differences between the two freshmen extend even as far as their favorite Disney movies—“The Little Mermaid” for Mays, “Beauty and the Beast” for McKinley—neither can imagine a life without volleyball...
Last Friday, the Office of Career Services (OCS) hosted its annual career forum. Employers present ranged from mouse dolls to white ballpoints to fruit snacks. Or, rather, Walt Disney to Goldman Sachs to General Mills. While ostensibly this event was to allow students to learn about different companies and opportunities (or just to sneak off with business cards to claim connections we don’t have), the sharpest students realized that, really, the career fair is about free stuff. The bag OCS gave us at the entrance was simply too big for brochures alone to fill. So students turned...
Fisherfolk are a passionate lot, and Jacobs is one of them. The son of a Minneapolis junkman, Jacobs learned to spot value early in life, and by the 1980s he was plying that trade on Wall Street as a corporate raider, even making a run at Walt Disney. In 1992 he made a different play, buying most of the junk bonds of yacht builder Carver, which had used the high-priced debt to gobble up a portfolio of boat brands and got into deep trouble when recession hit. When Carver's owners called Jacobs to negotiate with their new partner...
...Rupert Murdoch; his Fox Sports Net allied with boat manufacturer (and onetime Disney corporate raider) Irwin Jacobs for its weekly FLW Outdoors Tour sponsored by Wal-Mart. Comcast, the top U.S. cable firm, plays up fishing on its Outdoor Life Network. OLN, which just bought rights to NFL games, might expand to challenge ESPN after its ratings spike from Tour de France finals...
Garcetti's dramatic life change came unexpectedly. Driving near his old office in downtown L.A., he glimpsed a worker 110 ft. above the ground, doing construction on the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The sight inspired Garcetti--a longtime amateur photographer--to rush home and grab his cameras. "When I first saw that ironworker crawling up on that high arch beam, a rainbow shined down and showed me a use for my talents," he says, sounding more like a dreamy artist than a hardened attorney making opening arguments. "An opportunity fell from...