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...Bobbi Brown. The weekend also featured 44 “break-out sessions” that included résumé reviews, mock interviews, lectures, panel discussions on a wide range of topics such as work-life balance, gender dynamics in the workplace, and the economy’s impact on the job search. One theme that emerged from the conference was creating a career that fits one’s passions. In talking about her own experience, Brown said that she never wanted to work in corporate American and never went to business school. “Everything...
Burns said he hopes to convey a larger truth about the impact of Roosevelt’s character on history and that the medium of film is uniquely equipped to deliver this message...
Particular landscapes can have a strong emotional impact on artists, and for first-time writer and director Lance Hammer, who screened his debut feature “Ballast” at the Harvard Film Archive on Monday, that locale proved to be the Mississippi Delta. The film, which has won numerous accolades, reflects not only Hammer’s sensitivity to place, but also the authenticity of the characters who inhabit that place. “I was unprepared for the experience, a deep connection to something I cannot articulate,” Hammer said, describing his experience living...
...weeks late and some trillion dollars in lost market equity short, the House Friday finally passed $700 billion legislation to bail out struggling Wall Street firms and ease the crisis of credit and confidence gripping the U.S. economy. And while its impact on the ailing economy is far from clear, the crisis' effect on the presidential campaign has been unmistakable...
While the bill is intended to help fix, or at least calm, the ailing economy, perhaps the most immediate impact has been on the presidential campaign. Since Paulson made his request on Sept. 18, McCain has lost the 3-point lead in national polls - his first in the general election - which he'd built on the back of his successful convention and pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate. He now trails Obama by 6 percentage points, according to an average of national polls by the nonpartisan website RealClearPolitics, and the focus of the campaign has shifted from character...