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Lowell, Eliot, Adams, and Kirkland will not have wireless in –every dorm room this fall, so residents of these Houses will have to use the wall connections in their rooms, poach from neighboring routers, or relocate to a dining hall in order to get online...
...eyed young software engineers are eager to work for as little as $4,500 a year. Yet there are not nearly enough experienced managers (who can pull in 10 times as much) to oversee the influx of raw recruits. At the same time, as multinationals like Accenture and IBM poach midlevel executives, some observers are worried that fast-rising wages could erode India's competitiveness--and price the country out of the outsourcing business, which has fueled most of the country's IT growth. --By Aravind Adiga/New Delhi...
...Ford are known for their recruiting prowess, and financial analysts say retaining key personnel will now be the priority for PPR. Just hours after Ford and De Sole's departure was announced, headhunters in Paris and New York City were deluged with phone calls from companies looking to poach talent. Among the most sought-after prizes are two handbag designers, Maria Grazie Chiure and Pierre Paolo Picciole, who created last season's best-selling horse...
...been confined to followers of other faiths. Perhaps his greatest disappointment has been the failure of his efforts to heal the rift with the Orthodox churches, particularly of Russia, which has remained staunchly opposed to any rapprochement and inclined to see Catholic overtures in Russia as an attempt to poach for souls. There again, however, some of the theologians around the pope may be inclined to see his outreach to the Orthodox as somewhat na?ve, given the theological chasm that divides the two churches on such basic issues as the papacy itself...
...when New’s search committee, convened last spring, came up with Menand’s name, it had to contend with competitors from not one but two other colleges seeking to poach...