Word: passional
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...Bechtel. He's hosted Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz and CEO Jim Donald, and in March was the star speaker at the coffee giant's AGM, at which he described Starbucks and Rwanda as parts of an "extended family very closely linked by the business we do together and the passion we share." Says Schilling: "It's like this great love affair. Rwanda is becoming America's African sweetheart...
Sitting on a bus in China last spring break, two Harvard students discovered that they were united by more than an interest in Asia—both shared a passion for entrepreneurship. By the end of the bus ride a partnership had been formed, and now the two have launched a Web site for other aspiring student businessmen. Co-Founders S. Travis May ’09 and Vivek G. Ramaswamy ’07 launched the site last week to connect students who are interested in starting their own businesses. The site, StudentBusinesses.com, sells subscriptions to professionals, such...
...probably be more lost than us if they had to," Smith said. Now, he works for a non-FLDS construction company, sharing an apartment with several other exiles. "I spend my money on cars, bikes and hospital bills," Smith said, explaining that bike-riding at skateboard parks is his passion...
...next passion was fashion, and it led her from summer jobs at the Yves Saint Laurent boutique in New York City to 16 years as a fashion editor at Vogue, where she did covers and influential shoots with photographers like Richard Avedon and Deborah Turbeville. There too she eyed the top prize. "I don't think you stay for 16 years and not want the ultimate say," Wang explains. When she realized she wasn't going to get it, that she would never be editor in chief, "I had to try to recover," she says...
...read with mixed sympathy and frustration your editorials on Gen Ed and the Core (“Whither is the Faculty’s passion?” and “And What About Us?”, editorial, Sept. 19). Two years ago I introduced a sequence of two Freshman Seminars modeled on the year-long Literature Humanities core course taught at Columbia University. I am not alone. My department Chair, who teaches some very dynamic and successful Cores, also teaches the Columbia “Contemporary Civilization” sequence for the Extension School...