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...prolific and high-minded debate in these pages over Harvard's qualifying heat of rat races--recruiting--has unfortunately resolved little. More likely it has widened various gaps: between career-seekers and idealists, between capitalists and socialists, between those who now enjoy signing bonuses and those who are destined to become permanent fixtures on their parents' couches...
...coupled nirvana, Spoon says: ³First, become inspired.² Then move to bigger and better things: outdo your best friends¹ weddings, scoff at their wine suggestions and secure the jealousy of every other couple at the gym. Keep track of your own honey though; this cosmopolitan rat race takes no prisoners...
...having lunch with Buckwheat at the Home for Retired Racial Stereotypes in Hollywood last week when the Kingfish rushed in. "Holy mak'rul dare, Brother Buckwheat, a real stupid argument has erupted in Washington," he announced. "You better git dare rat away." "Dare I is," Buckwheat proclaimed, leaping up from the table and inviting me to follow. "It's stupid," he explained. "The Society for Turning Up Phony Issues and Diversions, a secret outfit dedicated to making us black folks look like fools by stirring up dumb racial controversies. I'm coming out of retirement to fight them...
Some in the Kosovo Liberation Army smell a rat, but they'll attend Kosovo peace talks anyway. The rebel movement's political spokesman Adem Demaci on Tuesday recommended a boycott of the negotiations, but hours later rebel HQ announced they would be attending this weekend's talks in France. The confusion reflects suspicion over the Serbs' bona fides as well as concern over the framework outlined by NATO. "The Kosovo autonomy plan may actually allow Milosevic to put NATO to work for him, because the West's opposition to independence for Kosovo makes peacekeeping troops the guarantors of Yugoslav sovereignty...
...considered core, a catch-all term for unbridled living of the extreme- sports go-for-it ethos. "To be perceived as core is alternative-marketing gold," says James Palczynski, vice president and analyst at Needham & Co. If you are selling skatewear, then you had better be a skate rat, and your company had better sponsor a team of top skateboarders. But core is more than an aggressive, participatory attitude. It's also a vibe, a quasi-mystical, anti-Establishment subtext that has to permeate a firm and come across in marketing and advertising so that it resonates with trend-setters...