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...finest suits, hoping to attract job offers from sought-after firms: Goldman Sachs, Bain, McKinsey and the like. A select few applicants will secure a working relationship, but the majority will receive an e-mail beginning with the season’s most dreaded phrase: “We regret to inform you...” What factors land someone a position? According to Colleen M. Horan ’05, it takes brains, talent and a lot of “bullshitting...
MUHLENKAMP: We know some people who regret buying tech stocks. We don't know anybody who regrets putting money in their home. If mortgage rates got to 7%, it would make a dent. But rates now are at 5.5% or so, and long-term studies show that this is a normal mortgage rate. We don't expect housing starts to keep growing. But the publicly traded builders are taking market share from the neighborhood man with a hammer. That has become their edge, and these are companies that sell for nine times earnings...
...responses were provided real-time, effectiveness would improve considerably. Let’s not become one more bureaucratic agency that says, ‘Sensitive information—we can’t share it.’ In that case, once again, we shall find ourselves having to regret that we didn’t act on time,” he said...
...unions often do not like home educators because the government schools lose thousands of dollars of state and federal aid per student when home educators opt out—the National Education Association (NEA) annually passes a resolution condemning home education. School boards and parent-teacher associations regret the loss of some of the most involved parents from their midst. Social services case-workers, though great people in almost any other context, frequently distrust home educators or are unaware of state laws regarding home education and so harass those who practice it, including—full disclosure—this...
...know what he's talking about"; and her deputy, Stephen Hadley, in that same 60 Minutes broadcast said that the White House has found "no evidence" that conversations Clarke claims to have had with President Bush even occurred. Clarke has responded to his critics with a dollop of wistful regret, followed by an adamant refusal to back down. "It pains me to have Condoleezza Rice and the others mad at me," he told Good Morning America. "But I think the American people needed to know the facts, and they weren't out. And now they...