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Times have not always been so easy on the ice for the Matignon High graduate. Heralded as the Terriers top recruit in 1979. O'Regan found the transition from high school to the college game a difficult...
...University of Oregon Law School: California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso: Linda Greene, a professor at the University of Oregon: Ralph Smith from University of Pennsylvania Law School. Although he has not yet been confirmed as a speaker. Reynoso said that "in general, the American law schools need to recruit more minority professors." "There is a big gap between awareness and getting something done," he added...
...roster of campus absentees, ranging from U.S. Steel to Philip Morris, reads like a Who's Who of corporate America. Among the most conspicuous no-shows are major oil companies, whose profits have tumbled along with oil prices. Exxon Corp., the largest U.S. industrial firm, plans to recruit at just 19 schools this season, compared with 50 a year ago. Part of the slack is being taken up by computer and electronics companies, as well as fast-growing younger firms. Says Arthur Letcher, director of graduate placement at the Wharton School: "The Fortune 500 companies are unquestionably not hiring...
When the Harvard women's swim team arrived in Los Angeles last year for its annual training trip, Coach Vicki Hays tried to recruit someone to help with the driving duties. But when she asked her athletes if any of them had ever driven a van, everyone remained silent...
...were set up every hundred yards or so, and citizens were stopped, searched and asked for their identification cards. Meanwhile, squads of soldiers went house to house, looking for high school graduates to fill the ranks of the unpopular and demoralized Afghan army. When the soldiers found a potential recruit, they would take him away at gunpoint. Says an Afghan exile living in New Delhi: "It is not what you would call winning the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan...