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Last Friday at the 2007 Career Forum, as students and recruiters exchanged monotonic pleasantries inside the Gordon Track and Tennis Center, one high-pitched noise rose above the din. “Woohoo!” The Pillsbury Doughboy stood in front of the General Mills (GM) table , instantly recognizable in its white chef’s hat and expansive stomach—sure enough, the Doughboy responded to FM’s poke with a squeal of irrepressible glee. Emily S. High ’06, a marketing associate at GM, stood calmly by while the Doughboy began shimmying...
...year colleges in the United States, meanwhile, has risen 35 percent since 2002, according to the College Board. Several proponents of greater regulation cited Harvard and its $35-billion endowment as an example of soaring university wealth being nonetheless accompanied by continuing tuition increases. Harvard’s tuition rose 3.9 percent for this academic year, while the endowment posted a 23 percent gain in the most recent fiscal year. Kevin Casey, senior director of federal and state relations for Harvard, took issue with the idea that Washington should regulate how universities spend their vast endowment incomes...
...country's martial links began long before these two generals rose to power. Formerly a ragtag band of freedom fighters, the military helped Burma free itself from British colonialism. Aung San, the father of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate and democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, is revered both as an independence hero and as the founder of Burma's army. After independence in 1948, this group of rather beleaguered soldiers transformed itself into a professional force. A Defense Services Academy modeled after West Point opened its doors. The Defense Services Institute took over colonial-era business concerns like shipping...
...Chicago under Friedman and his colleagues. When the peaceful battle of ideas didn't defeat the left in Latin America, then you had a wave of military coups, often supported by the CIA, and many of these U.S.-trained Chicago boys, as they're called in Latin America, rose to prominent levels of governments - heads of the central bank or finance ministers - where the economic shock therapists were working hand-in-hand with the very real shock therapists who are in control in these countries through repressive means, including torture...
...couples who can't bear to spend even a night apart, the advantages of commuter marriages are perhaps unfathomable. But to people like Wendy Wu, 34, they're crystal clear. Wu, a litigator for New York City-based firm Proskauer Rose, was married in April 2006. As an associate, she works ungodly hours but feels little guilt about leaving her new husband waiting at home alone--because said husband is three time zones away, in Los Angeles, where he works for the police department. Wu has been working out of the L.A. office of her firm, and when...