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Last year, 46 percent of Harvard seniors registered for the OCS recruiting program, according to Associate Director of the Office of Career Services Robin E. Mount. This number has a tendency to fluctuate slightly as the business world goes through changes; there’s been a two-percent dip in participation since the dot-com bubble burst...
...times, it is hard to tell just where Goodman is going with the novel. The government opens a prolonged investigation into Cliff’s work after Robin provides them with compromising information. Congress is dragged into the fray as well, with members of the lab testifying before a subcommittee...
...overwhelming outside pressure. Sandy Glass, one of the directors, brilliantly raises funds for the lab, but his “motives were not entirely pure.” Marion Mendelsohn, the other director, masterfully grooms the young incoming scientists, but is too conservative and very seldom takes any risks. Robin is an ambitious scientist derailed by her obsession with trying to dig up evidence against Cliff, and Cliff is an obsessed scientist derailed by his ambition...
Cliff comes across as an attention-monger who appears more concerned about his image in newspapers than his own lab tests. And Robin comes across as a spoiled brat who only blows the whistle because she has an axe to grind with her ex. The characters’ antics sometimes go beyond the strange into the bizarre. While walking along the Charles River, the Stanford-educated Cliff comes up with a “profound idea” to “walk across the river.” He soon discovers that his idea isn?...
...lab’s scientists emerge relatively unscathed. Sandy, who rushed to publish the results of Cliff’s study without independently verifying them, becomes an administrator at a private clinic. Robin, the whistle blower, goes on to work with one of the lab’s rivals. And Cliff, whose suspect research methods received such bad press throughout the entire ordeal, apparently has “a possibility in Utah...