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Personal shoppers have been around for a long time. Department stores first introduced them in the 1980s, and today most upscale outlets employ a small cadre of image consultants. Macy's even offers them in the children's section. Alternatively called style advisers or wardrobe consultants, personal shoppers go to a client's home and offer advice on what to keep and what to toss. They gently direct buyers toward the most hip-slimming trousers. What makes Rich's job unique?besides the fact that a disproportionate number of his subjects are thin and gorgeous?is that the looks...
...also urges faculty to be proactive in implementing these reforms because “while [college] leaders have considerable leverage and influence of their own, they are often reluctant to employ these assets for fear of arousing opposition from the faculty that could attract unfavorable publicity, worry potential donors, and even threaten their jobs...
Janitors at the University of Miami (UM) in Florida have been striking for a week, demanding a change in the labor practices of UNICCO, a facilities maintenance company that both UM and Harvard employ...
...indefinitely. That's why it wants the private sector to start taking up the slack, though only in three areas: knee and hip replacement and certain kinds of eye surgeries, such as cataract operations. The idea is that that would bring additional funding into the system and more fully employ medical staff. To work in the private sector, medical practitioners will have to submit a "business plan" to the health ministry, says Alberta Health and Wellness spokesman Howard May. "Then we appraise [each request] based on a number of things, the most fundamental of which is the fact that...
...Graduate School of Design. “It is perhaps a flaw in the Harvard governing system that there’s no mechanism to find out what the University faculty thinks,” Altshuler told The Crimson. We agree. Many other large and notable American universities employ bodies of this type in order to facilitate inter-school communication and cohesiveness. Stanford, Columbia, New York University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Kansas all have representative bodies that cross traditional divisional lines. Harvard too has a provision for a University Council in its faculty handbook, a provision...