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...hard to reject, prima facie, the reasons Harvard gave for discarding the program. Fiscal squeezes are the rule these days around the University, after all, and there is no reason to sink extra money into job placement, worthy as it is, before more fundamental tasks--from scholarships to junior faculty salaries. Moreover, with the perennially tight academic job market showing signs of opening up after two decades, it may well be a good time to reevaluate Harvard's approach to career placement for graduate students. Harvard officials promise, finally, to explore other ways to help Ph.D.'s enter...
Rogers's approach to crew has made him an ideal captain. In a sport known for egos and prima donnas, Rogers's easygoing personality provides a soothing counterbalance. "As captain he has been exceptionally effective in a very quiet but also very effective way." Parker says...
...South Africa a lot of people thought it was serious about playing the inside game." Let's pressure companies in the country to introduce progressive employment and social policies, the Corporation argued, surely working within the system for positive change is better than simply cutting and running. Not prima facie, an unreasonable argument...
...vaudeville dancers, leaves the act, goes to school, and eventually becomes a music professor. As the story gets under way, he tries to persuade a famous Russian ballet company to perform a modern dance by one of his students, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. The inevitable complications ensue. The prima ballerina (Natalia Makarova) makes advances. Poor Frankie Frayne, Junior's true love, despairs. The ballet's impresario discovers the professor's terrible secret-that he lives to dance-and talks him into starring in the climactic number himself...
...Cloud Nine), is the strangest of dinner parties; the hostess is alive, but all the guests are dead. Marlene (Gwen Taylor) is a smart, hard-nosed career woman who is celebrating her promotion to managing director of the Top Girls Employment Agency at a London restaurant called La Prima Donna. She has invited a few prima donnas, or "top girls," of past centuries to celebrate with...