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...these nice ladies? They're the powers behind the Kaplan Thaler Group, a hot New York City ad agency that had $900 million in billings last year. The duo created the iconic AFLAC duck, and clients include Procter & Gamble, Continental Airlines, Pfizer, Revlon and Office Depot. Thaler and Koval attribute their success in part to practicing what they preach in their 195-employee office. (Of course, having terrific creative work helps too.) At Kaplan Thaler, everyone gets a callback, and every résumé gets answered. "We may not have a job for somebody," says Thaler, "but everybody deserves the respect...
...some writing, publish it once in awhile, and have nobody read it—you’re The Indy. 5) Get a white/gray wig and be a) Derek C. Bok b) Harvey C. Mansfield c) Michael J. Sandel or d) all of the above. 6) Smear on some duck shit and call yourself the Charles. 7) Go naked and be the allegorical Primal Scream. 8) Cover yourself in red paint and be a piece of buffalo chicken. 9) Get a gray ponytail wig and a ’tude—you’re the pirate man checkout...
...officials said in 1954 that continued maid service would cost the school $150,000 a year—or about $1.04 million in 2005 dollars—students can now summon a worker to wash their laundry for $19.95. Now fresh and folded clothes join pepperoni pizza and Peking duck among the items that students can have delivered straight to their doors. The student-run start-up DormAid, in its continued effort to compete with the well-established Harvard Student Agencies Cleaners, launched the “A La Carte Laundry and Room Cleaning Service” this past weekend...
...curricular review’s game of duck, duck, goose, Reason and Faith is the goose. While we appreciate the bold thinking underlying this suggestion, among the excisable components of a solid general education report, a religion requirement should be the first to go. It would be foolish to think that the study of religion should not play an important part in educating “citizen[s] of a democracy within a global society,” as the report advances as its underlying aim. Religion has always been important and certainly, recent events seem to have elevated...
...help them catch bad actors. "The anti-fraud interests are very strong," said Chris Hoofnagle, senior staff attorney with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at U.C. Berkeley School of Law. Most Hill staffers believe it's unlikely that the pretexting legislation will pass during the "lame duck" session of Congress, which happens in November when the members return from campaigning. Other issues and distractions will probably grab center stage, which means another bill will have to be introduced during the start of the new Congress in January; a change in leadership could further complicate matters...