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...corporate mating season begins in October. Nervous seniors perfect their resumes and sport their 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...
...first weekend of Spring Break, select athletes from the Harvard men’s and women’s Track and Field teams took a trip down to warmer climates to escape the gloomy dampness of Boston...
...will not select its new Chairman until after the November elections. But, as Dean showed, grassroots effort is the only way to make significant change in the Democratic Party or in the nation, and those changes take time. To that end, several former Dean staffers have launched a website to draft Dean to run for DNC Chair, and to encourage Democrats to elect him. The website, www.deanfordemocrats.com, is the beginning of what we hope will be a massive effort to reshape the Democratic Party for the new millennium...
...months since Raffeld’s departure, Rapier said that she and a number of other administrators had taken a relatively short time to sift through a small group of potential hires in order to select Abell...
Greenberg said the political strategy of President Bush, as directed by chief political adviser Karl Rove, is to excite the conservative base on key issues and use select initiatives to reach out to certain targeted groups. He said tax cuts, farm subsidies and aggressive positions on social issues such as abortion and gay marriage are specifically directed at business interests, rural voters and white evangelicals—three key elements of the base. He said Bush administration policies on education, immigration reform and prescription drugs are designed to capture votes from suburban women, Hispanics and seniors, respectively...