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...what the Industry Expert was for. With hundreds of hours of summer investment banking experience in his back pocket, the Expert was solicited to give the necessary background briefing, advise on wardrobe and generally translate the bramble of acronyms—BAAM, 3(a)9, EBITDA—that infest recruiters' slideshows. It was the Expert who counseled against wearing mesh shorts to the Sheraton. It was the Expert who was expected to know who Blackstone was, and how to deal with Mr. Shoulder Bag's query...
...Halloween theme, I have made my pick based on which school has the best campus legend featured on its Wikipedia page. My one and only source for term papers mentions Princeton’s “Phantom of Fine Hall…an obscure, shadowy figure that would infest Fine Hall, home to the Mathematics Department, and write complex equations on blackboards.”Even if the phantom had turned out to be John Forbes Nash, inventor of the Nash equilibrium, I prefer complex math problems to mysteriously appear thanks to tough yet sensitive MIT janitors from Southie...
GUINEA WORM DISEASE $25 million to combat illness caused by a parasitic worm, which lives in fleas that infest standing water, mainly in Africa...
...live to tell tales of the marauding buccaneers who currently infest the sea-lanes of Southeast Asia. Piracy has become an all too real contemporary scourge for fishing and commerce across an expanse of ocean stretching from the Malay peninsula to the Philippines. Sumatran pirates constantly harass coastal freighters and fishermen in the Straits of Malacca ... Pleasure boats headed toward Bali from Hong Kong and Thailand are warned to stay away from the Celebes Sea. Cutlass and sword are pass?. Asian pirates today pounce from hidden coves in supercharged speedboats or trawlers armed with automatic rifles, M-79 grenade launchers...
...quite happy that Mather is isolated on the eastern end of campus, keeping us temporarily safe from their diseases. Matherites have proven themselves to be a dirty, scheming, incestuous bunch who may or may not be out to infest the rest of the Harvard population. But, Mather, neither you nor your government handlers will win. At next year’s Lather, we’re grinding in hazmat suits...