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...York University’s Stern School of Business is putting on the full court press trying to recruit Shleifer, with an offer of nearly $500,000, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week...
...recruit when he entered the Sun Records studio in Memphis in late 1954, Elvis learned enough so that, when he joined RCA, he was soon the de facto producer of his own sessions. Steve Sholes was RCA's A&R representative, but, as Phillips insisted to Guralnick: "He was NOT a producer. Steve was just at every session, and he kept his fucking mouth shut." Sholes would propose songs, and Elvis would dispose. In 1957 Leiber and Stoller, the L.A.-based singer-songwriters whose "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" would be prime Presley calling cards, took over as producers. Stoller...
Hankins, an associate at the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray, was active among black Harvard alumni and worked to mentor and recruit black lawyers both within his firm and in the greater Boston area...
...Ropes & Gray, Hankins helped organizations—including Harvard and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute—design employee benefit plans. He was involved in the firm’s efforts to recruit minority lawyers and also served as a member of the Boston Lawyer’s Group, an organization that promotes the hiring and retention of attorneys of color in the Boston area...
...used for purposes of jihad. That was back in the mid-1980s, when the target of Bin Laden's jihad was the Soviet army occupying Afghanistan. Bin Laden was a star fundraiser and organizer for a program organized by Egyptian and Saudi intelligence in conjunction with the CIA to recruit young Muslims from around the world enraged by this infidel occupation of a Muslim land, bring them through Pakistan to Afghanistan, train them, arm them, organize them into a kind of Islamist International Brigade and let them loose on the hapless Red Army. That program helped drive the Soviets...