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Unlike most job-seekers on campus this fall, Lawrence H. Summers doesn’t have to brave the recruiting rush to find a gig on Wall Street. The former Harvard president is now a part-time managing director at New York-based D. E. Shaw Group. Summers, who will take on the new position in addition to his current role as the Eliot University professor, will focus his efforts on “various strategic initiatives and high-level portfolio management activities” at the hedge fund, the firm announced yesterday. Summers, a former secretary...
...Laughs.] Probably so--I'm not being a rock star in Flicka. I guess it's part of the gig. I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music...
...took me awhile to get the hang of how college worked.” After graduation and a brief stint singing in Budapest, Mattison—who began as a stand-up bass player—found himself working a variety of jobs, including a reporting gig in Saint Paul followed by a day job in New York. Fortuitously, producer John Snyder, who would produce Scrapomatic’s first record in 2002, heard and admired the band and recommended Mattison to Derek Trucks, whose singer had recently left the band. Snyder’s recommendation, among others, inaugurated...
...into college, high-end wines and overpriced gadgets in a desperate spread entitled, “Passions,” and beautiful people. None of these things are my Harvard. I’ve been anticipating 02138’s debut. Last February, I was interviewed for a summer gig with the magazine by a cute woman and a cuter man. Both Harvard alumni, they were young and made me feel at ease. The woman told me how awesome it was that I wrote for The Crimson—she’d never finished her comp...
...referring to the music industry, “the fans have come last in the chain of importance. We’re trying to flip that back around.” Later that day, as the Ladies drove by Hufstedler and her bandmate on their way to their next gig, members of the band shouted out the window: “Oh my god, it’s Plan B for the Type A’s!” —Staff writer Nina L. Vizcarrondo can be reached nvizcarr@fas.harvard.edu