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...Harvard has always been spotty and conflicted. But the one piece of advice everyone seems to agree upon is that the Holy Grail of internships is one that gives an intern exposure to a career that he or she could really love. While this ideal may be the mantra of the Office of Career Services, it is certainly hard to come by. Have any of these advisors actually experienced an internship? Have they ever felt the eternal tick of seconds that make the hours between 2 and 3 p.m. seem like ten lifetimes? Have they ever made copies...
...each of us, we’ve both overcome the urge to be too polite and make a guy feel unsketchy in a downright sketchy request, and we’ve found a place where Barbara Bush’s “just say no” mantra can really be applied...
...Arendt was talking about how the relentless push-and-pull of organizations and bureaucracies can create a way to blame the system rather than oneself. "I was just following orders" - that was the mantra of the German officers at the Nuremberg Trials. It's not a completely illegitimate defense. But I don't think Andrea Yates will say she was "just following orders...
...your intellect isn't that good, you stop trying to process it and you hide in a cocoon of close advisers. But President Arroyo is always checking things out with her own sources." She despises gossip and fuzziness, and her demand for "empirical evidence" has become a palace mantra...
...still walked with the measured steps of a man at high altitude. He looked out of place among the soft, comfortable suburbanites that came to toast his accomplishment. And as he spoke he reassured the crowd that he was done with Everest. But he added that the climbers? mantra is "So many peaks, so little time...