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...written while at Harvard, notes the lack of steady jobs in the business.“My biggest concern is that I would not get enough work and I would be bored,” she says.In a city so colossal and cut-throat, Harvard lacks a helpful alumni network. “One reason people go to Yale Drama is because it has an infamously strong network of fiercely loyal people,” Donahue says.“As far as professional networking, I’m sure it’s there. It’s definitely...
...them abroad. "This isn't like cocaine, where there's one boss in Colombia who directs the whole business," says Frank Pieke, the director of the Institute for Chinese Studies at Oxford University, who has written a book on Fujianese migration to Europe. "Instead, you have a very loose network of independent people with close local connections. This creates a sense of trust that results in stable commercial transactions...
...Vietnamese gangsters. "These routes used to be for drugs and weapons," says the snakehead, who does not accompany his clients on their journey. "Now they're for Chinese people, too." On average, the snakehead can sneak three people through the Czech Republic a month, but he says a network of traffickers from Sanming brings in a total of 1,400 Fujianese a year, in addition to 600 others from Zhejiang, another coastal Chinese province. "It's a good business, more lucrative than textiles," he says. "But if the people get caught, then I lose all the money I paid...
...onto the national calendar, but he owned it. None of that David Schwimmer cautiousness, that Tom Hanks self-mockery, that Rainn Wilson hipster alternative cluelessness--not even the John Cusack exasperation at the idiots running everything. Brody's nerdiness was unapologetic, So Cal slow and so self-assured, the network let his character have a hot girlfriend. His new archetype was successful enough that two years into the show, he started seeing scripts for pilots describing characters as "an Adam Brody type...
...least when we were little, lacrosse was a really small network,” Sara says. “At every camp, you’d see the same people over and over again, so all the teams that I’m playing now, I know all the girls on their team. One kid gets going, and it’s a really fun sport...