Word: polos
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Robbin Mitchell, a Ralph Lauren VP of “replenishment,” stands at a podium in the downstairs parlor of the Harvard Faculty Club, where a Polo recruitment info session is being held. She wears a black blazer, and her hair is tied in a skinny ponytail. With the grace of an academic, Mitchell lectures a group of eager undergraduates about Polo’s Executive Training Program for graduating seniors and summer internship for sophomores and juniors...
...four company representatives open the floor for questions. A number of hands shoot up. “About the vision of Ralph Lauren, is that something they teach in the Executive Program?” asks a manicured young man who could have stepped out of a Polo ad himself...
...Harvard women’s water polo team’s first three season opening games proved that while the Crimson can best most of its Ivy League competitors, it still has a ways to go before knocking No. 15 Brown from its place as league powerhouse...
...like defense and foreign affairs. Some royals, such as the Kings of Mysore, Baroda and Travancore, were enlightened rulers who promoted the arts and built colleges and irrigation works. But most, as the photos in this book amply testify, spent their time hoarding diamond necklaces of breathtaking size, playing polo and cricket, and nearly shooting India's tigers into extinction. In 1939, Jawaharlal Nehru, India's future Prime Minister, lamented that most of the princely states were "sinks of reaction and incompetence." A mass of desperately poor peasants tilled the land for the benefit of a small group of landowners...
...preparation. Two students share each small room, which contains little more than twin beds, two desks and, for upperclassmen, desktop computers. The schedule is purposely intense. Each morning, after waking up at 5:45, the kids make their bed, get dressed in their uniform of khaki pants and white polo or Oxford shirt, then line up single file to go to the cafeteria for breakfast. Classes begin at 8 a.m. and last until 4 p.m. The late-afternoon hours are filled with extracurricular activities that range from choir to flag football. After dinner, the students go back to their dorms...