Word: favors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Former treasurer of the Kirkland House Committee Sam Yagan '99, admits that allocation of HoCo funds are "based on the whim of the people present at any particular meeting." Inevitably, committees favor certain investments: Kirkland's HoCo subsidizes the Boat Club; Cabot's Weight Room "Czar" Marty Thiry '00, requested $3,000 to refurbish the weight room, and Lowell's HoCo succeeded in extending dining hall hours. Apportioning is also made in the name of the zany and the philanthropic, from Leverett HoCo's $200 kazoo purchase for their Winter Carnival to Kirkland House's support of a dining hall...
What began as a speech by Silverglate in favor of repealing all campus speech codes, particularly HLS' sexual harassment guidelines, became by its end a full-fledged debate with Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz...
...This seemingly unusual arrangement is is quite typical for Leonard, who has always focused on extensive live research. In his latest novel Be Cool, sequel to Get Shorty, the infamous Chili Palmer gives up the movies in favor of a music industry career. Leonard needed lyrics and inspiration for his fictional band, so research this time meant schmoozing with singers. He and his assistant met with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Aerosmith, among others, but Leonard finally found his ideal band by accident. Hanging out at a lounge in L.A., Leonard experienced a Stone Coyotes performance and knew right...
Marciano's advice to recruitees? Study up on your firms and their clients before interviewing. He also favor consulting and commerical banking over I-banking. In the last, he says, "You don't learn anything about a client dropping the keys to their warehouse on your desk and telling you they can't make the next payment." Got all that? Good...
Harvard has several advantages working in its favor over these two foes going into the competition...