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...opportunity to re-think this role,” Hyman wrote. “Harvard has excellent people who work here already, but there is tremendous competition among employers. We felt that increasing the visibility of this function would enable us to compete more effectively to recruit and retain the very best people...
...Giroux, whose roster of authors has included T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor and Tom Wolfe; in New York City. A critic of the publishing industry's overcommercialization, Straus, who started the business with John Farrar in 1946, sold out to a European conglomerate in 1994 but managed to retain a high degree of editorial autonomy. Publishing houses run by conglomerates, he said, "could just as well be selling string, spaghetti or rugs...
...line of anti-cellulite clothing by Miss Sixty includes jeans, pants and skirts that contain supposedly skin-firming microcapsules. The manufacturer claims the clothes, even after 40 washes, retain 40% of their cellulite-fighting effectiveness. The $139 pants sold out quickly after their February debut and are on their second run. The label concedes that the jeans are not guaranteed, but they at least look slimming. The downside: you should probably hand wash these items, which is a hassle...
Corbin, Swift and Kidd will likely meet once a month to discuss the running of PBH, and Kidd will retain veto power over all major decisions. Corbin will report to Kidd regarding fiscal safety and liability for all PBH groups, while Swift will report on general public service issues...
...American education system is pretty much unique in stressing that a smattering of disciplines should be studied at tertiary level. In Britain and countries which still vaguely retain the vestiges of its empire, degrees are targeted so specifically at certain career paths that students are generally expected to declare not just their major, but their life course before entering university. This means lots of dentists barely out of braces, lawyers not yet legally permitted to drink and interior designers still living in the bedrooms their parents furnished some twenty years before—complete with pastel-hued alphabet friezes running...