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Even at M.I.T., the U.S.'s premier engineering school, the traditional career path has lost its appeal for some students. Says junior Nicholas Pearce, a chemical-engineering major from Chicago: "It's marketed as--I don't want to say dead end but sort of 'O.K., here's your role, here's your lab, here's what you're going to be working on.' Even if it's a really cool product, you're locked into it." Like Gao, Pearce is leaning toward consulting. "If you're an M.I.T. grad and you're going to get paid...
...Days that Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi sustained his vow to abstain from sex until Italy's April 9 general election before declaring the campaign pledge a joke...
...stage of sophisticated, western-incubated thinking on trade, energy and international affairs, expertise that until now has been largely invisible to eastern Canadians. Albertans believe "it's better to experiment than to plan your way to perfection," says Dinning, who is the front runner in the race to succeed Premier Ralph Klein. "The new Conservative government attitude is rooted in an Alberta attitude that if you need to get something done, you don't Royal Commission it--you just...
...contender who seems to most flutter the Liberals' hearts--and those of their Bay Street backers--hasn't yet entered the field. Former New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna made front-page headlines when he resigned last week as U.S. ambassador, a step observers consider a prelude to his long-expected return to politics after sojourns in diplomacy and corporate life. But despite having been elevated by default into the front runner's slot, McKenna, 58, has given no hint of his plans. "He's interested in public life," says a confidant. "But running for the leadership would mean...
...months to recruit delegates and build a campaign team--one reason that pressure is already building for hopefuls to declare themselves. Former Justice Minister Martin Cauchon was among the first to sniff the winds: he called a prospective supporter (unsuccessfully) three times for lunch. Others, like former Newfoundland Premier Brian Tobin, powerful Toronto-area M.P.s Maurizio Bevilacqua and Joe Volpe and former hockey great Ken Dryden, are allowing speculation to float about their prospective candidacies. Still others are lurking on the sidelines, including former Harvard professor Michael Ignatieff, who, as a political novice, won a hard-fought race...