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...financial statement releases. Missing a big story could really hurt Goldman Sachs, and if we want to stay on the top, we cannot afford any such error. These responsibilities obviously do not all fall upon me. Like most other employees, I work on a team of five, ranging in rank from an intern like me all the way to some of the firm’s top senior employees...
...desk phone rings, and as I pick it up, I hear the sound of my boss on the other end. “How does the Mexican peso rank right now?” he asks, as always making sure that I’m on track. I silently applaud myself for having just checked this figure and answer my boss as confidently as possible. “Very good,” he says and abruptly hangs...
...clumsiness in recognizing the implications of former Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate interest in teen-age male pages. Foley has resigned in disgrace and is seeking treatment for alcoholism, but House members and their aides tell TIME that they fear new revelations are coming. On the conference call, a rank-and-file member asked about a report, circulating in the leadership since at least Friday, that Foley had showed up drunk at a page dorm. A House leader said that the alleged visit should be discussed privately because reporters might learn about the call, according to people who were...
...so—the methods for qualifying and assessing exemplary educational performance are not the same as those that track our gross domestic product. Unfortunately, the report proposes an extensive “consumer-friendly information database” that will allow people to “weigh and rank comparative institutional performance.” Not only is this proposal cynical about the purpose of education—reducing, as it does, students to “consumers” and academics to “institutional performance”—but it additionally places colleges...
Even at a school of overachievers, Perez stood out. She held the second highest rank in her senior class and as brigade command sergeant major was the highest-ranking minority woman in the history of West Point. She set school records as a sprinter on the track team, led the school's gospel choir, tutored a number of other students and even helped start a dance squad to cheer on the football and basketball teams. Professors wanted her to be in their classes; soldiers wanted her to lead their cadets; underclassmen wanted to absorb a little bit of the drive...