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...fellow New Transfers and a few transfer veterans, respectively—who were prepared to help me get acclimated to my new surroundings. The Links threw us a party, and it was then that I made my first and closest Harvard friendship. We bonded over music, books, and a keen sense of wanderlust, a trait that took us on 2 a.m. runs to rural Connecticut and spur-of-the-moment interstate memory trips. Things were starting to look good...
...didn't see herself that way. "I don't think of myself, nor do I appreciate being characterized, as a woman CEO," she told TIME in 2002. But she was one of just eight female CEOs of a FORTUNE 500 company, and so her performance at HP drew keen attention. As it turns out, Fiorina took the same risks as her male counterparts, made the same mistakes--and met the same fate. "This is not about gender. It's really about business," says Deborah Soon of Catalyst, a nonprofit group promoting women in business. She points to remarkable progress: Fiorina...
...Today, in Shanghai, few in government seem eager to acknowledge this massive suburban undertaking. Over the past two months, three municipal departments declined to comment on the project, a curious silence in a city that is usually keen to burnish its international reputation with its latest, hippest urban scheme. Local papers, which tend to give property developments breathless coverage, have also been remarkably muted in recent months. Ironically, the developers of those foreign-styled suburbs that are already finished report high sales rates for what are, after all, some of Shanghai's most comfortable neighborhoods, even if some of them...
After starting off the year with strong tournament appearances at the East Stroudsburg and Cliff Keen Invitationals, Preston stands undefeated in dual meet competition...
...Simmonds' keen characterization comes from both her clever writing and exceptional drawing skills. Using what looks like a soft pencil and gray wash, she creates naturalistic drawings that camouflage what are actually carefully composed arrangements of gesture, posture and facial affect. One remarkable panel shows a Christmas dinner party at which Gemma and Charlie are seated. The hostess looms to the left, while a man scolds a child at the right, with all the other characters carefully positioned in the space to display a different state of mind. In a brilliantly satiric take on selfish love, Simmonds uses a thought...