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...debate surrounding the pursuit of jobs in investment banking and consulting has become polemical, to the point where it is no longer constructive for those in search of some answers. Every year, two extremes seem to emerge: the first, that many hundreds of graduating seniors who go through recruiting are betraying their obligations to humanity; the second, that the positive externalities of working as a banker or a consultant justify such a career choice...
...searching for ways to bash or praise seniors who choose to drop their resumes to the Office of Career Services (OCS) in search of a job in the business world does not go to the heart of the matter: It does not serve to explain why many people whom we respect and whom we know to be good people choose to become bankers and consultants. As someone for whom corporate America holds no allure, the fact that so many of the people I entered Harvard with are now going through recruiting is sort of baffling to me, but I find...
...find a career path where I can live the way I've enjoyed living here and not be overly concerned with the prices of the niceties in life? I can search for a job Harvard would like to me to have, instead of wandering the earth to find myself. I can get a steady salary that will go up with time and eventually I'll send a check here in gratitude for teaching me what to appreciate...
Deacon also had unprecedented cooperation in his search for the best performances. While Philips led the project, 24 other record companies contributed music to the edition. In fact, EMI, a fierce rival of Philips in the classical market, is represented on 55 of the 200 discs, while tracks from Philips feature on only 38. "The collection was so comprehensive and definitive that no label wanted its artists to be left out," says Chris Roberts, president of Polygram Classics, which owns Deutsche Grammophon...
...women headed home, there wasn't much home for them to come to. Wartime shortages of everything had crippled the housing industry. Returning veterans, their libidos fully charged with the ambitions that would create the baby boom, found themselves doubled up with parents and in-laws. To publicize their search for an apartment, one New York City couple camped out for two days in a department-store window...