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...comers to follow in Bartholet’s steps.“A lot of students come to law school full of ideals, but most students wake up in a few months thinking that ‘my only choice’ is to work at a commercial law firm,” Bartholet says. “I think that’s a waste of talent.”BUREAUCRATIC BARRIERSAdopting Christopher was an eye-opener for Bartholet. She recalls that the system in place for international adoption was incredibly bureaucratic, each step shrouded in layers of difficulty...
...every piece of data suggests that college students still overwhelmingly get their music illegally. College students represented only 10 percent of the sample in an online study by market research firm NPD, yet they accounted for 26 percent of all music downloading on P2P networks and 21 percent of all P2P users in 2006. Moreover, college students surveyed by NPD reported that more than two-thirds of all the music they acquired was obtained illegally...
...lover, which opens the possibility of doctored evidence. The other is the cat-and-mouse game Crawford plays with the prosecutor, Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling). Beachum is eager to close what appears to be an open-and-shut case and move on private practice with a white-shoe law firm. Wily Ted counts on Beachum's inattentiveness, but doesn't count on the young lawyer's scrappy spirit, his growing sense that justice must be done before ambition can be served. Up to a point, the movie has a certain intricacy and novelty...
...tutor and as a production assistant for a small theater chamber music group. David L. Skeist ’02-03, another actor in New York, graduated from the Yale School of Drama with an M.F.A. in acting. “I work at a PR firm,” he says, noting the flexible hours as an assistant allow him to attend auditions during weekdays.Amy C. Stebbins ’07, who has acted, directed, and written while at Harvard, notes the lack of steady jobs in the business.“My biggest concern is that I would...
...volunteers, all mothers, for Vocalpoint, a program in which the moms evangelize about pet food, paper towels and hair color. P&G gives the women marketing materials and coupons, but they are free to say whatever they like (or nothing at all) about the products. BzzAgent, a firm that specializes in word-of-mouth marketing, has its 260,000 volunteers submit detailed profiles about their habits and interests, which BzzAgent uses to match them to word-of-mouth campaigns for products made by companies such as Nestl, Arby's, Philips, Kraft and BP. The so-called agents are provided with...