Word: maile
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...equally high hopes for Smile Pinki. He notes that if just 1 in 100 people who order the DVD decide to become donors, it will have a vastly better success rate than most direct-mail programs. "Most charities would be horrified by all of this," he admits. "If you went to most boards and said you wanted to spend a quarter of a million dollars on a documentary that doesn't even mention the name of the charity, they'd be appalled. But this was the best $250,00 any charity ever spent...
...Thursday, UC President Andrea R. Flores ’10 announced in an e-mail to the student body that the campaign would no longer operate under the auspices of the UC, and would continue its operations as an independent organization...
...initially hired four non-UC student staffers, who received a small stipend for their work. By mid-July, none of the four student staffers remained working full-time for the project, according to Joshua J. Nuni ’10 in an e-mail over the UC-General list on July 15. The campaign efforts were sustained through volunteer work for the rest of the summer...
...remember the exact moment when I opened my inbox at an Internet café in Nairobi to see a forwarded e-mail from Marilyn Hausammann, Vice President for Human Resources at Harvard. Painstakingly slow, the page loaded with Hausammann’s announcement of the impending elimination of 275 staff positions. I had been in Kenya for only two weeks, and everything about the thickness of the air, the dirt under my fingernails, and stickiness of the keyboard reminded me of how many thousands of miles I was away from Harvard. I felt disempowered and unable to voice my opinion...
...undergraduate culture’s emphasis on extracurriculars allows certain students to work toward this goal, since many feel strongly about the organizations they run and exert endless energy in attempts to motivate their peers. Yet, on a campus where the majority of organizing occurs via e-mail lists and Facebook events, many student leaders spend more time online than on stage. While this experience is certainly valuable, it exercises a specific skill set that does not necessarily translate to real-time oration...