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...attended the session after being impressed by an earlier A&F event. “I was really intrigued by the company’s presentation… everything looked sharp and clean,” says Mach. But her interest doesn’t extend as far as her wardrobe. Though the company’s corporate training brochure says that employees are their “best customers,” Mach admits that her A&F collection is sadly limited to “a few of the sweatshirts.” Other recruits were similarly apathetic?...
...Hurwicz, who at the time was pioneering the new field of mechanism design theory. At 90, Hurwicz is the oldest Nobel laureate in history. Maskin and Myerson took several classes together while pursuing their PhDs in applied mathematics at Harvard. As graduate students, they began to refine and extend Hurwicz’s work, applying it to practical schemes such as the regulation of markets and auctions. Professor of Economics Susan C. Athey, an economic theorist who specializes in industrial organization, says that the theories of both Myerson and Maskin have contributed substantially to her own work on auctions. Athey...
...internship gave her a sense of security, she said, adding that when the mortgage crisis hit while she was interning over the summer, she was concerned it could affect her firm’s ability to extend full-time offers...
...small scale, Harvard could open its shuttles to residents; extend bike paths and green streets into the neighborhood; allow the local elementary school—which currently lacks art space—to have consistent access to the new museum...
...fact, as the authors make clear, ever since the rationale for supporting Israel during the Cold War became obsolete, our excessive support of Israel has been a consistent thorn in our side and has helped attract the animosity of much of the Arab world.But when the authors attempt to extend this argument into the modern day by claiming that the Israel lobby has brought America significant trouble in recent years, even contributing heavily to our entrance into the war in Iraq, their arguments begin to rely on less solid evidence and start to wear thin.Their section...