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...problem with that little paragraph is that I barely saw it during this past job/internship application cycle (and not because I was accepted to everything. We should all be so lucky). Chances are, if you were applying for jobs, you didn’t see it much either because many employers have adopted what can only be described as a silent treatment toward those less-than-worthy applicants. This means that applicants who are not passed to further rounds are never notified of their rejected status. This policy is unreasonable and disrespectful. Employers need to treat their applicants with...
...third roar was the fan-love roar, rising as Woods smashed his first shot on the first hole of a tournament he has won four times in the past 13 years. The ball soared. Woods twirled his club. The ball shrank to a vanishing speck against a cloudy sky. Woods stooped to pick up his tee. Finally, the ball returned to the green Earth, right in the middle of the fairway, in that far-distant land known as Tiger Country. (See a brief history of the Tiger Woods scandal...
...first of these bogeys took the full measure of his fans. Woods was battling through squalls of wind and blowing pollen on the par-4 7th hole. He left his second shot short, then chipped the ball past the hole and missed his putt. Were his wheels coming off? "We're behind you, Tiger!" a fan called...
...describing its mission, saying German troops were now engaged in a "non-international armed conflict." Then came zu Guttenberg's admission that the 4,300 German soldiers currently on the ground are actually engaged in what the rest of the world generally considers a war. "In the past, the Afghan mission was sold to Germans as a civilian reconstruction mission but in reality it's a war," says Citha Maass, an Afghan analyst at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs...
...down. Pentagon officials said there was no apparent threat to the roughly 1,000 mostly American troops at the Manas, which is located 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Bishkek. The Pentagon plainly has no intention of leaving, even though the current yearlong lease expires in July. During the past month alone, it has issued solicitations seeking to award paving, janitorial and shuttle-bus contracts. It's also seeking to buy airplane-handling equipment, computers, tools and inflatable maintenance shelters for the transit center...