Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monday night: "Rich, could you come to The Crimson for a few minutes: we have a special project for you." My mission, which I chose to accept, was to create a sidebar for last week's consulting/investment banking scrutiny. The piece was meant to be a small quiz to help recruits discover the profession they were most suited for. Comfortable in my abilities to lampoon what some consider the most morally defunct of career professionals--intellectual whores, if you will--I set out for home...
...help them think in different ways. What I've learned most in my first year is it's trying to use my skills as an advocate to bring me and my peoples into the conversation," he says...
...going on. They also help me to define what I'm going to work on," he says...
Looking to the future, Barrios is looking to push a bill that would require mortgage institutions to lend to low-income neighborhoods. The current law requires only banks to lend to low-income neighborhoods. The inclusion of mortgage institutions, which Barrios says direct 60 percent of lending resources, would help fortify these communities...
...America's public schools have been pushed relentlessly - some say unrealistically - upward in recent years, fueled by parent frustration over their children's poor performance and administrators' embarrassment over their schools' reputations. But while higher standards are an admirable goal, they can hurt the students they were meant to help. "There's an argument to be made that the bar has been raised too high, too quickly," says TIME writer Jodie Morse. "And although nothing excuses cheating by teachers, we have a responsibility to look into what kind of pressure they're under to have their students improve." Still...