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...salary, non-profit or arts-related consulting can be an attractive—if unconventional—middle ground. THE HAPPY MEDIUM So far this year, 42 percent of all job applicants going through the Office of Career Services (OCS) at Harvard have applied to consulting firms, while financial services and investment banking each make up 27 percent, according to William Wright-Swadel, the director of the OCS. That consulting is a popular career choice is not news to anyone. But the positions aren’t always what you’d expect. When Raja G. Haddad...
...case of Fidel E. Solano, a longtime security guard employed under the security firm Allied-Barton, highlights the need for such a code of conduct. According to Emerson Harris, Solano’s volunteer representative from the Service Employees International Union, after not being paid fully for the hours he had worked, Solano was forced to choose between paying his rent and paying for his heart medication. Harris reports that, having foregone the much needed medication, Solano had a heart attack in Lamont in January 2006. Invisible to most students, with no union to represent him, he is still struggling...
...Jane landed a powerful jab to my right triceps that Sugar Ray Robinson would have been proud of. To her, any criticism by liberals about liberals amounted to conversational treason. Jane was firm and fervent in her beliefs, and she had paid for expressing them. A non-Communist liberal, she had denounced the House Committee on Un-American Activities and been gray-listed from Hollywood acting jobs in the early '50s. Robert Young reinstated her into the American family when he engaged her to play Margaret Anderson on the TV version of FKB, which he?d done on radio since...
...city officials yesterday.City Manager Robert W. Healy presented the results of a biannual citizen satisfaction survey to Cambridge’s nine council members—and five onlookers—in the Sullivan Chamber at City Hall yesterday.In the telephone survey of 400 city residents, conducted by the firm Opinion Dynamics last month, 22 percent said that “housing/affordable housing/rent control” is “the single most important issue facing the City of Cambridge today.”Only 15 percent of respondents said that access to affordable housing is “excellent?...
...Since starting his own investment firm in 2004, the 51-year-old engineer has become a self-styled green maverick in Silicon Valley, pouring tens of millions of his own fortune into clean energy startups and spurring infusions of private capital from Wall Street and other venture capitalists into alternative energy ventures. "We can replace all of our gasoline with ethanol-like fuels," Khosla says. His timeline: 25 years. But he's not waiting for the feds to hand out grants; he's investing in promising startups like Amyris Biotechnologies in Emeryville, Calif., which is bioengineering microbes that produce alternative...