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...Last week, 32 young Americans won Rhodes Scholarships. Their tenures at Oxford are funded by the legacy of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, a man whose life would not be honored today were it not for his scholarships—and specifically his vision that young people of outstanding intellect, leadership, and ambition could make the world a better place...
...last explanation: if one believes that 10 or 20 years down business career tracks, when going back to earlier ambitions is rarely possible, those choices will be the ones that have created the greatest happiness for those individuals...
Many thought a silver lining of last year’s financial crisis—or from the populist rage that flared against Wall Street excess and profits from leverage, not creativity—would be that earnings differentials would return from obscene to merely enormous levels, if not to the very generous multiples that had long been adequate to fuel a vibrant economy. Well, the hyper-bonuses are back—astonishingly having been made even easier to achieve with taxpayers socializing the downside risks. And the crisis? What crisis...
Dominique D. Winters, a third-year student at the Law School, spent last summer working at the Washington, D.C. public defender’s office, having foresaken more profitable firm jobs in order to improve what she says is a deeply flawed criminal justice system...
...cuts are largely reasonable, but I’m disappointed they decided to go to eight weeks of funding,” said Reuben A. Rodriguez, a second-year student who spent 11 weeks last summer in a public interest position...