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Smith College's career office sent its jittery job-hunting seniors a letter last month with a reassuring message: "There ARE jobs, and you can find employment." Unfortunately, there are far fewer jobs than anticipated, according to a report out today from the National Association for Colleges and Employers (NACE). The companies surveyed for the group's spring update are planning to hire 22% fewer grads from the class of 2009 than they hired from the class of 2008, a big letdown from the group's projections in October that hiring would hold steady. Some 44% of companies...
...began an e-mail plea sent over the Hillel-Undergrad list last week for the organization's leaders to reevaluate talk of getting rid of some of Hillel's rabbis...
Ronald Reagan once sent him a personal letter and William F. Buckley considered him a friend. But when White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called Rush Limbaugh "the voice and the intellectual force" of the Republican Party, Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele responded that the AM radio host was nothing more than a "divisive" and "ugly" entertainer...
...less bearish trading than the sell-off that fueled its 4.24% loss Monday. But observers warned against looking to daily, weekly, or even monthly market activity for signs of where they or the stocks traded on them are headed. The reason? First off, if the selling frenzies that sent indices plunging by roughly 50% over the past year were initially driven by fears of possible collapse of global finance markets, that panic is now mostly being inspired by the world's dismal economic outlook. Because of that, many experts say, traders are coming to work scared, and looking for signs...
...weapons program. This January, at the Munich Security Conference, Vice President Joseph Biden announced that the United States would “continue to develop missile defenses to counter a growing Iranian capability,” hardly the language of constructive diplomacy. To many, Biden’s speech sent a very direct message to Tehran: Even with Bush gone, it remains part of the “axis of evil.” This is the wrong posture to adopt at a time when preventing Iran from going nuclear is in our best interests...