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...People who write short stories are gunslingers,” King said, possibly referencing The Gunslinger, star of his magnum opus book-cycle, “The Dark Tower.” “We’re out on our own, freelancers, soldiers for hire.” “We don’t need a happy ending if we don’t want it,” he added. As for advice for young writers, the authors shared essentially the same stance: read a lot and keep writing. But they urged caution, as well...
Buck Farmer ’08 said he too has noticed a drop in positions offered, but added that he believes the reason for this trend is that companies cannot currently afford to hire as many graduates as they could last year...
...that running would entail. Sure, it would be challenging to staff up a national organization and build the county-by-county teams he'd need to compete in the early states. True, he has no shadow campaign lurking in the background and waiting to be deployed. But he could hire one, recruiting first-rate people from other campaigns as they fade; and he could enlist his vast army of grassroots followers as well as his Silicon Valley friends in a rainmaking operation mighty enough to compete against the fundraising prowess of Clinton and Barack Obama. So the logistics, though daunting...
Blackwater isn't the only company getting paid to protect American personnel in Iraq. The security guards who shot two women to death in Baghdad on Oct. 9 were working for an Australian-owned firm that was hired by U.S.-based contractor RTI International. Talk about outsourcing: a significant percentage of U.S. security guards in Iraq are neither Americans nor Iraqis. Here's a look at how many of these guns for hire can be labeled as mercenaries for fighting under a foreign flag. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...Unfortunately, you can’t hire a lawyer to represent you for the Administrative Board (Ad Board). Instead, the resident dean speaks on your behalf. And instead of being able to present evidence, all one can really do is write a heartfelt letter and hope it invokes sympathy and faith in your ability to function as a rational human being. As you can imagine, I spent much of the spring attempting to improve my writing...