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...Lowdown: If you saw 8 Mile, you're familiar with much of Eminem's story already, and unfortunately the narrative is crisper on the silver screen. Though sprinkled with anecdotal gems, this tangled history veers closer to "annotated picture book" than autobiography and crumples under the weight of too many half-baked attempts at introspection. The book's structure, it seems, was dictated not by laziness but by personal philosophy: he's not much of a reader. ("If there are no pictures in a book, forget it.") But he doesn't seem much for writing, either. Die-hard fans will...
Northwestern's Hori says the silver lining in the current climate is that many students are stepping back to reflect on whether they really want to follow the Wall Street herd even if recruiters do eventually come knocking. At Stanford, where 37% of business school students who graduated last year took finance-related jobs, many students are looking closely at non-finance companies recruiting on campus for the first time, including Facebook, Disney, and Sony. Resnick, Hori and leaders of other schools likewise report rising student interest in alternatives to finance, particularly in areas like social enterprise, energy, and health...
...heyday, either: it had outlets on three continents and annual revenue of about $40 million. But right from its 1984 launch in a Sydney motel, Mambo in spirit was always the quirky interloper contending with surfwear's super-heavyweights, the all - Down Under trio of Billabong, Quik?silver and Rip Curl...
...cruel irony: in an age when straight talk and authenticity are all anybody wants from writers, Updike is cursed with the unfashionable gift of eloquence. His prose is so effortlessly fluid, it gets him tagged as a lightweight, a silver-tongued devil: all art, no matter. But who has written more intelligently or more ruthlessly about sex and the suburbs than Updike? At least from the admittedly oversubscribed male point of view? Reread Couples--I dare you. Forty years on, it'll still rock you back on your heels. How did people know about that stuff in 1963? They didn...
Today, with graceful flicks of his silver baton, he conducts the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, which is currently enjoying its 201st season. At the end of this academic year Yannatos will step down as conductor of HRO and senior lecturer in the music department, concluding his 45 years of affiliation with Harvard...