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Talk about spooky. At an intelligence trade fair known as INTELCON, to be held near Washington next week, spyware firms will sell G-men everything from satellite-image analysis to cryptography tools. But the most secretive item may be a trade-fair award, named after Reagan-era CIA Director William Casey, that will be given at an unannounced ceremony at an unspecified time and place. The undisclosed winner, a high-profile business exec, will be cited for "selfless dedication"--code for his unheralded aid to U.S. intelligence...
...satisfaction with social life. The new College events board boasts that it will throw five big events a year; however, these plans are strikingly similar to what was accomplished without a College events board in the past year. Although efforts to institutionalize the success of the Harvard State Fair and the Harvard-Pep rally are commendable, these events will hardly have a dramatic impact on students’ opinions of campus social life. A name change and a shift of finances are simply not enough...
...from my days at Harvard Business School in the early 1990s, several students were forced to withdraw because they were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for alleged violation of securities regulations. The rationale was that the students were tarnishing the school’s reputation: possibly not fair to the students since no formal conviction had been reached, but understandable nonetheless...
Nice to meet you: I am a sociable, competent Harvard student, certainly adept at multitasking, and I get pretty decent grades. I write a fair bit, and I think I’m pretty good at it, and I’m working on a novel that may be turned into a screenplay. Of course, I’m getting some help with it—I am very busy, and ultimately this stuff has to sell. Which brings me to my next point: After this, I want to be an investment banker...
...group’s budget cannot cover, according to Ford. The group decided not to expand their membership when the Law School changed their policy to cover gatherings of over 100 students. “We felt it was important to the atmosphere of our events and to be fair to distributors to keep our membership capped,” Ford writes. The group’s wine tastings are held eight to 10 times per year and are led by students or local wine producers and distributors. Wine is either brought by the invited speaker or purchased with membership...