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...weekend before Lehman Brothers' collapse, Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain turned to Lewis for help. Thain called Lewis to offer him 10% of his firm. Lewis said he wanted it all. By the end of the weekend, the deal was done. Lewis was hailed as a hero for saving Merrill on the same morning that Lehman was forced to file for bankruptcy. (See the top 10 bankruptcies...
Berry was faced with a tough decision—take the potentially more lucrative Wall Street offer, or work in football, his passion, even if it wasn’t as a player...
Though he dreamed of playing professional football, Berry was not selected by a pro team in the highly-competitive NFL draft last April. He received a tryout offer from the Washington Redskins, but almost immediately after he arrived at their minicamp, he was sent home with a herniated disk in his back...
This past Sunday, Randy Cohen, The New York Times “Ethicist,” wrote that to give to Harvard is to “offer more pie to a portly fellow while the gaunt and hungry press their faces to the window.” Rather, he argues, if donors truly want to “promote education as a form of social justice,” they should give their money to community colleges, all-black colleges, smaller Catholic schools, and the like...
Over 40 organizations came together in Lowell Dining Hall last night for the Women’s Community Fair, an event created to offer female students an opportunity to find organizations they might have missed in their first weeks on campus...