Word: mate
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When a ritzy Manhattan apartment building removed the nest of a red-tailed hawk, Pale Male, and his mate from a window cornice, angry protests ensued. Leading the charge: Mary Tyler Moore, the building's most famous resident. After much squawking, a compromise was reached. The hawks wil be allowed to rebuild. No mortgage necessary...
It has been said that picking the right college can be as crucial to future success and happiness as picking the right mate. That's essentially the logic behind Destination-U.com a new online search service for college-bound students. It was developed by Greg Waldorf, a venture capitalist who is on the board of matchmaking service eHarmony.com and his mother Toby, who for 15 years has been privately advising high schoolers on applying to college. "The recommendations we give are quite personalized--similar to what I do in the office with clients," says Toby...
...typical ambitious but callow Harvard youth, I am sort of expecting to kamikaze toward the top of the corporate ladder and, meanwhile, hoping a soul mate will fall into my lap—if for no other reason than it is expected. Company is scary, funny, relevant and, at its best, fairy-tale enchanting. It is scary because Duryea’s character at the beginning seems to be the best of what one can hope for in going from college to the corporate world: he is in a leadership role (a role given him, hilariously, because of his success...
...success playing without the clock. They usually come up with some bizarre idea that doesn’t pan out,” he says. “They can’t get [check]mate in three moves, so I just start a few moves behind and catch up soon enough...
...interview after the panel, Cahill defended the decision to put North Carolina Senator John Edwards on the ticket as Kerry’s running mate, despite the fact the Democratic duo was unable to carry a single southern state...