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...It’s a very specific zeitgeist,” she told FM. “I think anybody will look back and say, ‘That was a really big time in my life.’ The Hasty Pudding is just a really wonderful career marker...
During another break, the interrogator said she wanted to shame the devout Muslim captive in order to break his connection with God, which was giving him the strength to stonewall. After asking advice from a different translator, this one a Muslim, she went into the bathroom, taking a red marker with her. When she and the first translator re-entered the interrogation booth, she told the detainee she was having her period. She stuck her hands in her pants, then withdrew a hand and showed the detainee what appeared to be blood on it. She asked again who had sent...
...digital era. He has little choice. As digital cameras have grown in popularity, Kodak's profitable film business has gone into free fall. Not the first Kodak CEO to try to refocus the company on the digital future, Carp is clearly taking the biggest risks. He put his marker down 16 months ago when he announced that Kodak would cut dividends, slash investments in its film business--and milk its declining profits to fund $3 billion worth of acquisitions and investments crucial to the digital transformation. The market response was swift and brutal: Kodak's stock price plunged 18% that...
...experience at this university. Ironically, Woodson received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard. He was the second African-American to receive a Ph.D. from this University, and one of the few black Ph.Ds of his time. For that, and his work following his time here, there is no marker of it here on this campus., I probably would not have known he even attended Harvard unless I stumbled across it in a book—I guess his history here did not warrant much recognition from our University either...
...grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...