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Postscript: I'm witnessing the MBA scene firsthand this year as a second-year MBA fellowship student at the Columbia Business School. Even as my classmates relish their classes and the study-hard, play-hard nature of school, some sound concerned when the subject turns to their job hunt. At the Harvard Business School, a second-year MBA candidate recently posted a blog entry poking fun at the euphemisms business school students use to explain why one internship or another hasn't yielded a full-time offer. What they say is "There wasn't a cultural fit," or "I wouldn...
...school, an institution that, particularly in crowded global cities like London, efficiently sorts kids by socioeconomic class. A 2004 study of British schoolchildren by University of Bristol researchers found that the wider the choice of schools parents have, the more segregated pupils are by background. I've seen this firsthand, having just dispatched my youngest child, Nicola, to school...
...Sheffield first encountered police violence in Argentina when he was there with Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies internship program and La Liga had him working on a court case involving police brutality. During his second summer in the country, Sheffield experienced institutionalized violence firsthand, when he was beaten by members of the Buenos Aires police force. Having conducted interviews with around 50 junior police officers in Argentina, the Pforzheimer resident and social studies concentrator concluded that an increasing “gap between cops on the street and cops in the office?...
...cycle of inadequate funding,” said Wolf. “In this way, we won’t need to spend more down the line on our healthcare system and motels [where homeless people are often temporarily housed].” Numerous Harvard students have a firsthand view of the homeless epidemic by volunteering at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter on 66 Winthrop St. “Working at the shelter has taught me how to listen and respect people without judging them,” said Eleanor R. Wilking ’09, a senior director...
...Alliance and the U.S.-led forces in 2001. Today, the bullet holes along the walls of the fortress remain unplastered. Shoib Najafizada, Afghan Logistics and Tours' man in Mazar, leads visitors around the rusty remnants of tanks and heavy artillery that lie strewn around. Like other guides, Najafizada offers firsthand accounts of some of the key moments of the country's recent turbulence. He was present at the battle of Qala-i-Jangi, as a translator for the coalition forces, and today he deciphers the untouched graffiti scratched in Persian and Urdu into black scorched walls of the fortress: "Long...