Word: lavishness
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...bankers know that, and you’ve been busy cutting costs wherever possible at your firms. Problem is, you think it will actually help your firms if you cut down on the number of Harvard students you recruit this fall, and if you slash the logo-imprinted giveaways, lavish dinners and other such perks you used to use to lure us into your companies, back in the good old days...
...these low value, commodity services that your average junior loan officer at Fleet Bank could do in his sleep. The real value these companies bring to the world and to their shareholders is their unmatched skill at recruiting fresh-faced young students from the Ivy League. Those lavish dinners with the managing directors, those Morgan Stanley-emblazoned squeeze balls and those endless series of first round, second round, supplemental, on-site, off-site, group, case, informational and informal interviews are what you guys do best. No one else in the world can do what you guys do when it comes...
...need-to-see movies, the kind of stocking stuffer that tends to pile up in shoppers' hands (and on their credit-card bills). Maybe all retailers will need this Christmas is a few hot "magnet" items (sufficiently stocked) to get shoppers into the stores, and the American urge to lavish gifts upon one's family, friends and of course oneself will do the rest. Maybe they'll need a miracle...
Members of the brigade have a guidebook--the 11-volume, Arabic-language Encyclopedia of Jihad. Its 6,000 pages, prefaced by lavish praise of Osama bin Laden, detail the practices of terror and urban-guerrilla warfare. There is even a CD-ROM version. The tome includes instruction in using various arms as well as Semtex--one of the most popular explosives among terrorists--and TNT. Graphics help explain how to rig an envelope with C4 explosive and how to turn an apartment-building door, a radio, a cigarette pack, a television set or a couch into a deadly, booby-trapped...
...lavish lifestyle associated with Harvard rarely includes financial aid. To a subset of wealthy students, Harvard’s estimated $37,750 cost for the 2002-2003 year has never been on their radar. Meredith E. James ’04, whose father is a New York City investment banker, is reflective of this population. “My family is comfortable. There is no reason we should apply for aid when we can afford school already...