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While Saunders says that she has been interested in applying for the program for several years, particularly after spending her summer three years ago working in a public-service job in East Harlem, she notes that the weak economy made her friends more understanding of the decision to forgo a more traditional career path...
...Kennedy School is dedicated to training leaders who forgo opportunities for profit in the private sector in order to serve the common good,” the petition’s author, first-year KSG student Stephen L. Rabin, wrote in an op-ed in The Crimson in May. “Romney spent his business career at Bain Capital putting self above the common good...
...Bush team leaves nothing to chance, and so for 2004, Rove is applying the Powell doctrine of overwhelming force to politics. The $120 million Bush raised in 2000 was a record, allowing him to forgo federal matching funds and swamp McCain in the primaries. This time, aides say, Bush will raise nearly twice that amount, and he won't be facing a G.O.P. challenger. That means he'll have tens of millions of dollars to spend next spring on television ads to shock and awe his Democratic opponent, who will have just emerged penniless from a bruising nomination battle. "Just...
While business leaders play an important role in society, the Kennedy School is dedicated to training leaders who forgo opportunities for profit in the private sector in order to serve the common good. Romney has spent more of his life lambasting people for dedicating their lives to public service—that is, following the path KSG urges its students to take—than actually serving the public. Romney spent his business career at Bain Capital putting self above the common good. His business dealings reflect a clear pattern: lay off workers, cut their benefits, line his own pockets...
...would soon be able to show that they have stopped SARS transmission within and beyond their borders for 20 days; that is unlikely to be the case soon in China. In my view, the value question raised by SARS is whether individuals within this University will be willing to forgo individual needs to be respectful of the life and lives of the university community...