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...passion, which may not be lucrative or prestigious, they say, ‘What’s the next prize, the next thing that’s hardest to get, the court or law firm that’s hardest to join, the consulting firm with the highest salary...
Number of billionaires in India, the highest in Asia, pushing Japan to the No. 2 spot for the first time in 20 years...
...hierarchy as to who guards what. The outer gates of compounds are typically guarded by third-country nationals, experienced soldiers of fortune from such countries as Nepal, Chile and Fiji who are paid a fraction of what a British or American former soldier or policeman would get. The highest-paid independent contractors are known as tier-1 personnel. These are the former U.S. special-forces soldiers. On Helvenston's tour in Iraq, he was making about $600 a day. He was on a 60-day rotation and stood to make some $36,000 in two months...
...trip was a bonding experience, nothing more—an event at which the players could share a few laughs and enjoy watching their game at its highest level of play. After a rebuilding season slowed by injuries and inexperience, Harvard players were just another group of March Madness spectators. No one on the team could have predicted that the game would take on a new meaning a year later, and that it might have served the Crimson well to pay special attention to the team hoisting the championship trophy on the parquet floor...
...Piano came to Cambridge to design a new art museum on Memorial Drive. Piano, who is also currently working on expansions of the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, won the Pritzer Prize, the architecture world’s highest honor, that same year.Piano’s two-building project was slated to create gallery space for modern and contemporary art in one building and serve as a new home for the Sackler Museum’s ancient and non-Western collection in the other. But community opposition...