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...joked about Beowulf's current success, but called Heaney's work "a treasure horde of poetry more valuable than any treasure horde of Anglo-Saxon gold he has made us see," before calling Heaney forward...
Coming off a week of spring training in the Carolinas, the Crimson women hope to demonstrate their improvement this weekend at the beautiful Oyster Harbors Gold Course for the Boston College Invitational tomorrow and Sunday. Though the women will look for a strong finish this weekend, the tournament is merely a chance to prepare for the Ivy League Championships at Pine Barrens in New Jersey in less than two weeks. Though Princeton and Yale remain formidable opponents, Laine and company hope for some momentum to propel them to a strong finish against their Ivy rivals...
...next day, President Clinton convened his "White House Conference on the New Economy." Technology entrepreneurs and government officials gathered to discuss the fate of the booming Internet gold rush. While the tone was largely optimistic, Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan reiterated the need for a bracing injection of caution. And finally, also this week, the government ruled against Microsoft in its anti-trust battle. The fate of the software giant remains unclear, but it may ultimately go the way of Standard Oil and Ma Bell...
...very well be that we will never encounter a $400,000 dollar offer in The Crimson again. But, it remains to be seen what long-term effect the gold rush will have on those swept up in it. How hard it will be to hunker down in an entry-level job and begin to climb the career ladder slowly. After all, we will remember, there was once a time when employers doled out BMW's like Christmas fruitcakes...
...same way that the bold frontiersmen of the 19th-century gold rush were different from the era's staid urban patriarchs, today's American college graduates differ from their parents as they take their place in the "modern gold rush" economy. According to a report from CNN, an increasing number of college seniors are turning to the here-today, gone-tomorrow Internet world for post-graduation jobs, rather than exploring "safer" alternatives in advertising, banking and the law. Like the economy, today's graduates are a different breed than their predecessors. Unlike their parents, who sought long-term jobs...