Word: slates
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...elsewhere for your office supplies (Bob Slate), books (Harvard Bookstore or practicallyanywhere.com) and Harvard insignia gear (the man behind the escalator in the T station will get you a fabulous deal). If you have a young child in the family that cannot, simply cannot go on without that "Someone at Harvard loves me" teddy bear, you are exempt from this protest movement--who am I to crush the dreams of a child? (If you yourself simply cannot go on without a daily supply of Harvard clothes, stationary and teddy bears, you too are exempt. Because you scare...
Like in the preseason, Harvard now has a clean slate, as do Penn and Dartmouth. All three teams now start at 0-0 in the Ivy, and if they each can hold off the pesky likes of Princeton, Yale and Cornell, it will come down to the head-to-head match-ups in determining who represents the conference in the NCAA tournament...
...eagles hungry, law firms are taking some of the money that goes to partners--who typically earn a seven-figure "draw"--and redirect it to associates, who do much of the grunt work at Silicon Valley practices like Gunderson Dettmer and blue-chip New York firms like Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. First-year compensation packages will top $140,000, up from under $100,000 just three years ago. The higher wages are designed to ward off dotcoms seeking to hire lawyers directly rather than "rent" them through a firm. "The legal industry is unique in that corporations have...
...that will make it harder to file for bankruptcy. Lenders have groused that current law allows consumers, even those with the means to pay, to wipe out debt too easily. In the new law, which is expected to be signed in some form by the President, getting a clean slate will be more difficult, and payback schedules will be more common...
With all of this tidying up to be done, Rudenstine's slate seems to hold few new items. University officials long ago set their goals and posted their shopping lists. And within the next year or two, the campaign's $2.6 billion gift to Harvard will be neatly wrapped...