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...considered properly popular unless he is admitted to the company of Madame Tussaud's celebrities," the attraction's eponymous founder, the French-born Marie Tussaud told the British periodical Punch in 1849. But she couldn't resist including a smattering of unpopular characters, too. The so-called Chamber of Horrors still displays an anonymous Sans-Culottes standing close to the decapitated heads of some of the French Revolution's aristocratic victims. Nearby a lifeless Jean-Paul Marat bleeds into his bath...
...Doors” and a former student at Harvard Business School. Other speakers tried to convey the value of any job, whether or not the work relates to one’s ultimate career choice. Theresa M. Moore ’86, the president and founder of T-Time Productions, said that her previous jobs—including stints at an Coca-Cola, ESPN, and an insurance company—all gave her valuable work experience. The panelists also emphasized the importance of finding a mentor, being proactive, taking risks, and exploring career options outside of campus recruitment...
...majlis, or legislature.) Many of those disqualified had once been considered khodi, or insiders, and include former ministers, governors and MPs, and heroes of the fight against the Shah or the Iran-Iraq war. Those barred from running even included two grandsons of the Islamic Republic's iconic founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
After more than 15 years away from undergraduate life, Sheryl K. Sandberg ’91 is now returning to the college scene. Facebook founder Mark E. Zuckenberg, former member of the Class of 2006, has recruited Sandberg, a top Google executive, to help run the social-networking juggernaut. Sandberg will now become Facebook’s chief operating officer. While at Google, Sandberg led Adwords—the advertising unit that accounts for the lion’s share of Google’s annual revenue—and headed the development of Google’s philanthropic...
...discussion, which was sponsored by the Radcliffe Union of Students, featured both Diamond magazine founder Matthew M. Di Pasquale ’08 and H Bomb editor Brandon T. Perkovich...