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What Inwald looks for--and warns companies to be wary of too--is people whose numbers exceed the normal curve. These are the applicants who are trying to come across as unusually, perhaps unrealistically, qualified--an effort that can be disastrous and transparent. "I was interviewing one person whose resume claimed he spoke fluent Spanish," Inwald says. "I began talking to him in my more rudimentary Spanish, and even I recognized that he was answering in only the present tense...
Altogether, the percentage of honors awarded would not exceed 60 percent of the graduating class. The changes will go into effect with the Class...
Using the index, admissions officers assigned recruits a score based on standardized test scores and high school class rank. The presidents then set a minimum score which recruits had to exceed...
HCECP releases a report recommending substantial pay hikes for Harvard employees, specifically suggested the University boost wages for the school’s 1,000 lowest-paid service employees to at least $10.83 to $11.30 per hour. These figures exceed the $10.25 rallying cry of last spring’s Progressive Student Labor Movement sit-in and the then-$10.68 living wage established by the city of Cambridge...
...from China and Hong Kong. The beetles turned up in Brooklyn, N.Y., six years ago, in Chicago two years later and in New York City's Central Park this winter, and have already destroyed thousands of trees. If they get loose in the rest of the country, damage could exceed $650 billion. "It's the greatest threat to U.S. forestry since the gypsy moth," says entomologist E. Richard Hoebeke of Cornell University. "I'm convinced that it's in other metropolitan areas. It's not a question of if, but when, we find them...