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...part of my summer internship at the Independent on Sunday, I’ve been doing a lot of research on the invasion of Iraq. One thing I’ve concluded is that many lies, grotesque fabrications and exaggerations went into pushing the American and British people to support an invasion. I’m convinced that if Congress and Parliament, and the people they represent, had seen all the truthful information—and none of the falsehoods—which was available to Bush and Blair, there would not have been an invasion...
...after winning her grant from the Weissman Foundation, Hackenbracht was told she could only use it for an internship in a region not affected by SARS...
Hackenbracht opted to leave the Beijing internship, which she was slated to begin in early June, rather than pursue the position in Mongolia that the Department of State in Washington had offered her. Instead, she is staying in Cambridge, researching her thesis and volunteering with Evening With Champions...
...just frustrating that Harvard forced me to cancel my summer plans in April (through the loss of funding and the moratorium) because of a health concern that was nearly over before I was supposed to even start my internship,” she wrote in an e-mail. “In addition, the Weissman did not offer me the option of receiving the grant money if the SARS ban was lifted, so I don’t even have the option of beginning my internship a couple of weeks late—even though I still technically could meet...
...Lower your expectations. Tom Devlin, director of the Career Center at the University of California, Berkeley, says that today job targets have to be broader. "We're stressing that obtaining an internship at a financial institution doesn't necessarily mean a Wall Street bank," Devlin says. "A regional bank gives the same experience." Likewise, consider applying to companies you think you might like to work for someday, even if the job isn't as big as the one you would really like...