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...freshman advising system at Harvard has come a long way. Freshmen today have an academic advisor to help with course selection, a proctor to mediate roommate squabbles, and a peer advising fellow to mentor them in undergraduate life. But most upperclassmen would agree that there are certain things they wish someone had told them their freshman year: How to navigate through the new, exciting, and confusing world of college hook-ups. So freshmen, before you get your panties in a twist, or lose them altogether, take a look at FM’s guide for avoiding awkward sexual encounters...
...Bank of America expanded, Lewis continued up the corporate ladder, and when his mentor retired 2001, Lewis stepped into the CEO spot. He immediately cut 10,000 jobs and outsourced many others to India. In 2003, he spent $47 billion on his first major acquisition, FleetBoston Financial Corp., which gave North Carolina-based Bank of America a foothold in the northeast market. A series of other purchases - Chicago's LaSalle Bank, Charles Schwab's private banking program - earned him a reputation as a man with a penchant for savvy multi-billion dollar deals. This January, he bought Countrywide Financial Corp...
...success has come at the expense of his father, who has lost a large chunk of his high-roller business to Melco Crown and others this year. Ho says his mentor has remained supportive. "He's been great," Ho says. "Even when we weren't doing so well, he did give us advice. It's almost like the two of us have formed our own little casino association. When we have meals together, he looks at me as his son rather than a competitor - even though we go after the same piece of chicken sometimes," Ho says...
...worked closely with McCain and Salter during the primaries, describes Salter's role as that of three staffers in any other campaign: he is chief speechwriter, an encyclopedia of McCain's personal history and the man who can tell McCain anything. "We became close friends," Salter explains of his mentor. McCain calls...
...then the whole father-son, mentor-protégé, competitive generational narrative got up and danced as Clinton laid on his hands: Sixteen years ago, he told the roaring crowd, Democrats gave him the honor of leading them: "We prevailed in a campaign in which the Republicans said I was too young and too inexperienced to be Commander in Chief. Sound familiar?" It didn't work then, he said, "because we were on the right side of history. And it won?t work in 2008, because Barack Obama is on the right side of history." A President who spent...