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...Moreover, with the once-rosy prospects of the financial industry now a distant memory, undergraduates here at the College—and at similar institutions—must realize that the days of simply expecting a firm to offer lucrative summer internships to nearly every qualified applicant are over. Unfortunately, most summer internships do not cover rent and plane tickets or offer a lavish monthly bonus—the way things are going now, you may not be paid at all. Those Harvard students who simply assumed that an entry-level analyst position would somehow magically materialize for them will...

Author: By Eugene Kim | Title: A Rude Awakening | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...study with a new group of students and a new group of words. This time, the subjects were told that the invented names belonged not to food additives but to amusement-park rides - something for which an element of danger is often part of the appeal. The results were similar: a ride with a name like the Chunta was perceived to be a less dangerous choice than one named the Vaiveahtoishi. But the Vaiveahtoishi was also described as likely to be more exciting. The lesson for marketers is obvious. (Read "Getting Closer to a Flu Supervaccine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Would You Buy Xylitol? Why Some Names Scare Us | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...Similar to the John F. Kennedy ’40 suite in Winthrop House, the completed room is intended to house visiting dignitaries, scholars and public figures. But the FDR suite which will also serve as a memorial, will only be open to the general public once or twice a year due to security concerns...

Author: By Bita M. Assad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...Georgia law last year approved state financial aid for students at schools that, like Morris Brown, are on the road to reaccreditation; it's one reason Pritchett has set an enrollment goal of 1,000 students in 2014, which would translate to a significant tuition revenue increase. Whether similar fudging will allow the school to benefit from the stimulus bill is still unclear, but Pritchett says the economic climate has something of a silver lining. "From the brink of disaster," he says, "you have hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sparing a Dime to Save a College | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...Cali cartels, motorcycle-mounted assassins shot down judges and witnesses while kingpins ran their drug empires from behind bars. Now Colombia has a modern maximum-security prison to lock down high-risk criminals. The judiciary, in turn, has switched from a written system to oral and accusatory trials similar to those in U.S. courts, making it harder for narcos to manipulate the proceedings. Still, many law-enforcement experts vigorously defend extradition as narco-traffickers now try to rig the system in more subtle ways. Last year, Guillermo Valencia Cossio, chief government prosecutor for Medellín and the surrounding Antioquia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia's Drug Extraditions: Are They Worth It? | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

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