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...spite of some minor technical difficulties (the stage broke), the Dunster House Opera (DHO) gave a sell-out performance of Leonard Bernstein's opera/musical version of Voltaire's Candide last weekend. The cast, particularly Joseph Nuccio'00 had a great deal of fun with an already witty, sarcastic and sexually infused libretto. Audience laughter often echoed the mirth of the lighthearted and light-footed cast...
Noam Weinstein '99 opened the night with a diverse collage of six original songs. An unremarkable-looking college kid on his soapbox in a T-shirt and sneakers--no rage, no angst, no gimmick--Weinstein had nothing to sell him but a voice and a talent. But once he started, he transported the audience in the packed cafe to another musical plateau where his expansive skill and solid music flooded...
...told 16-year old Latrell that six years later he would be a professional basketball player, he might have tried to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn...
Compare today's system to that of the fifties, in which employees might work for one company until they retired. Indeed, Willy Loman could not work for his company's competitors or a different industry. He had to sell item Y for company X or die trying. Thus, as we, graduating seniors, exploit the investment banks and the consulting firms in the name of career opportunities, we rebel against the old, more static career models. Our job market is one of tremendous horizontal and vertical mobility; to stay too long at one place just does not make good economic sense...
Cramer runs a hedge fund and writes for thestreet.com He holds investments in Cisco, Coke, Dell, Intel and Microsoft. This column should not be construed as advice to buy or sell stocks...