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...spare you the suspense. It should come as no surprise to most undergraduates that the consulting industry constituted the largest category of employers, with a whopping 41 companies sending representatives. Close behind in terms of numbers were the investment banking and computer technology firms, the latter having long shed their Silicon Valley grunge. Here and there were token "alternatives"--Teach for America, the Peace Corps, the Walt Disney Corporation--some of whose employees chose to wear clothes that tended (gasp) more toward casual Fridays than toward Wall Street...
This year's budget allocates nearly $120,000, or 67.5 percent, of the council's assets to grants for student groups in need of money, the largest amount in council history. Last year, 63.75 percent of the funds went towards student group grants...
Initially earmarked for the largest single grant in council history in an effort to convince the administration of student's desire for a new student center, the funds will now be rolled up into this year's committee expenses...
...Houston, Miami, Phoenix, Fort Lauderdale, Indianapolis, Maui, Gurnee, Ill., and Costa Mesa, Calif.; the chain will also upgrade several of its 70-plus remaining restaurants worldwide and revamp its menus, according to CEO Robert Earl. (No more Ramburgers?) The chain is digging deep for the extra cash ? its two largest shareholders and a trust for Earl's own children have agreed to pony up $30 million to help keep the company going. Right now, that?s looking like about as good an investment as a big-budget Kevin Costner directorial effort...
...early age that it's impossible to explain the place to the rest of the world, so why bother? Nobody believes it when Californians say they don't sit around worrying about earthquakes and mudslides; that they don't care when two professional football teams leave the state's largest city inside of three months; or that in the world capital of nutcase extremists, the guy who really seemed like an odd duck a year ago was Gray Davis, a nerdy gubernatorial candidate who claimed he would govern from the center, of all places...