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...advertising apprenticeship taught him about the efficiency of images, the shock value of a grotesque combination or a violent contradiction. And he delivered them prolifically, from a rainfall of men in bowler hats and portraits of eagles ossified into plants to his famous picture of a pipe, subtitled "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (This is not a pipe). Language was a lifelong fixation for the artist. He felt that because it was used to represent the truth, it was a betrayal: his picture of a pipe was only a simulacrum of the real thing...
...percent fewer this spring.Economics concentrator Trevor G. Frankel ’09 used on-campus recruiting to get his job at hedge fund MDT Advisers next year. He said his experience with OCS was positive, but emphasized that OCS should encourage people to locate jobs on their own. Ayla N. Bloomberg ’09 used e-recruiting in her job search, but accepted an offer that she found independently of OCS.“It’s definitely been more competitive,” she said of on-campus recruiting. “I stayed within the healthcare...
...Staff writer Ahmed N. Mabruk can be reached at amabruk@fas.harvard.edu...
...stumbled into this thing. We didn’t quite realize how good we were until the final whistle blew and we were national champions.” —Staff writer Lingbo Li can be reached at lingboli@fas.harvard.edu—Staff writer Marianna N. Tishchenko can be reached at mtishch@fas.harvard.edu...
...academy. Now, although its students still attend formals in uniform, it is the number one school in France, and grooms leaders for careers in science, business, and politics. Former President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing is a Polytechnicien, as were auto baron André Citroën and scientists Siméon Poisson, Augustin Fresnel, Henri Becquerel, and Henri Pointcaré. Each year, the top five hundred science and economics students in France join the community in Palaiseau, and after graduation, they continue on to the upper echelons of institutions across Europe...