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Okay, so you forgot to list some companies on your Scantron sheet, had trouble printing out your resume or messed up the MCATs. If Oriol's example means anything, though, it's that it's not the end of the world. We're young, right? We're still at a point where we can start new things. Jia-Rui Chong '99 is a history and literature concentrator in Kirkland House. Her column appears on alternate Mondays...
Lies: Beyond the billing-sheet dishonesty, the lying in Double Billing occurs among the lawyers who actually convince themselves that they are satisfied with their lives. Stracher's strength here is in his description of his attempts to simply like his job and the disillusionment that finally compels him to abandon corporate law all together...
...prewar years there was no intelligent management at Ford. When I arrived at the end of the war, the company was a monolithic dictatorship. Its balance sheet was still being kept on the back of an envelope, and the guys in purchasing had to weigh the invoices to count them. College kids, managers, anyone with book learning was viewed with some kind of suspicion. Ford had done so many screwy things--from terrorizing his own lieutenants to canonizing Adolf Hitler--that the company's image was as low as it could...
...Final Movement (1998) as itwas composed in the concentration camp. Fourmusicians sit adjacent to the ever-presentchimney. They are a reminder of the Jewishmusicians who were forced to play while newprisoners traveled to Auschwitz to perform forcedlabor or face immediate death. These men becomeswallowed by the tranquil landscape, readingnoteless sheet music, playing a soundless song...
...codes--known in techspeak as application-program interfaces, or APIs--and thereby ensure a level playing field for all programmers who want to write for Windows. Not surprisingly, Microsoft sees no such need. "Our applications are successful because they are better products, not because there is a cheat sheet," says Tod Nielsen, the company's general manager of developer relations...