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...dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), choosing which departments get to hire new faculty is much like a parent choosing a favorite child. While those lucky departments express their euphoria, everyone else is filled with jealousy and complains relentlessly. When making these decisions we hope his or her attention will be dominated by balancing two main concerns: the demand for teaching and the University’s research priorities...
...given stock grants or paid consulting fees to financial-aid officers at six schools who were recommending the lender to their students, those employees were placed on leave pending internal investigations. Likewise, a senior manager at the Department of Education was suspended for allegedly holding stock in the parent company of Student Loan Xpress while he oversaw lenders in the federal student loan program...
...Cheerfully dealing with myriad commitments, being smart about your time, and accepting that being a parent means being responsible for both the material and emotional welfare of your children: this is the new way of Asian fatherhood. Gentlemen, does it remind you of anyone? But of course. "Women are doing it," says Endo...
...Dove hopes to attract the 40 million or so baby-boomer women in the wrinkle-war zone with a provocative twist: instead of demonizing wrinkles with "antiaging" products, Dove celebrates them and calls its new line Pro Age. For the Anglo-Dutch consumer giant Unilever, Dove's $52 billion parent company, the stakes are high: total sales in 2006 grew just 4%. Indeed, since 2004, Unilever's sales growth has been in the single digits, while key competitor Procter & Gamble, which owns rival beauty powerhouse Olay, is growing twice as fast and enjoying healthier profit margins (22% in 2006). Dove...
According to Fitzsimmons, having a parent who graduated from Harvard or Radcliffe will tip the scale slightly in the admissions process. He added that legacy status is not the only factor explaining their higher success rate in admissions. Children of alumni often recognize the difficulty of gaining admission because of their parents’ familiarity with the University, and thus are “self-selecting,” he said...