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...Britt accumulated first-hand experience in the financial world through summer internships. As a rising junior working at Bank of America, she observed that there was just one woman on a 20- to 30-person cash equities trading floor. “I never felt discriminated against,” Britt says, but she did begin thinking about ways to give women more opportunities in a “male-dominated” industry...
...Cohen found herself in an area where Passats lined the street across from the university where she studied. The sociology concentrator, who grew up in Washington, DC, also chose to go to “a predominantly black high school in a predominantly white area” and learned first-hand about racial and class segregation. Cohen says she thought staying in the public school system was crucial for her own development. “I had everything I needed, and much of what I wanted,” Cohen says of her upper-middle class upbringing...
...doing, we hope that he may earn his qualifications first-hand...
...Since you have had first-hand experience in the battle front; if it were up to you, would you let the troops come home and why or why not? -Robert Dominguez Jr. in Aubrey,Tx That's not my decision...
...rare in this country, where criticizing Israeli policies is easily demonized as being “anti-Semitic,” that a forum for an unequivocally pro-Palestinian viewpoint receives much attention. Hopefully, this turnout is not merely indicative of a chance to hear about the conflict first-hand, but rather of a new willingness to hear the “other side” in the Middle East conflict...