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Instead, like many Harvard students, Riverton placed herself on the fast track to Wall Street, concentrating in economics with advanced standing. But halfway through her Harvard career, during a summer internship at the Boston Consulting Group, Riverton realized that a life in the corporate world no longer appealed to her. Finished with her concentration requirements but unsure how they played into her future, she took a semester off to travel and study in Taiwan. Away from the goal-oriented environment of Cambridge, Riverton came to view the commercial arts as a legitimate profession, not just a hobby...
...Prime Minister's success in defusing the unemployment issue is doubly impressive because the economic experiment called Thatcherism is, by her reckoning, only halfway completed. Upon coming to power in 1979, she reduced income taxes (the top rate fell from 83% to 60%), raised the value-added tax (a levy on goods and services) 8% to 15% and sharply cut public spending. Thatcher's top priority was righting inflation. That was a reversal of traditional British postwar economic policy, which held full employment as the primary objective. To curb price rises, she cut public spending at a time when rising...
...Tigers had other plans. Having won the previous night against Dartmouth, Princeton was already halfway to its 2007 Ivy League win total...
...syllabus, which I thought to be far more satisfying: “The Scarlet Pimpernel.”Luckily, my bad experience with “The Odyssey” hasn’t prejudiced me against all the novels with a Homerian essence. Before I was halfway through Bernhard Schlink’s “Homecoming,” I had decided that it was time to return to the original hero’s journey.But what makes “Homecoming” such a compelling read is its contestation of the very idea of a Homerian...
...turnout (more than 1,900 people had been counted through the doors halfway through the four-and-half-hour event) exceeded all expectations - and the capacity of the venue. When he finally managed to make himself heard, Barnard announced that the rest of the planned progam, including speeches in favor of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, would be scrapped. He asked people who had already voted to leave so that the hordes "standing five-deep" in the street could come in. Bob Worcester, the founder of research company MORI, an active member of Democrats Abroad since he moved to England...