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Ramsden found her perfect slot at the Grace Institute's mentoring program, where she coaches low-income women on the skills they need to land office jobs: appropriate office behavior, résumé writing and self-presentation. A favorite tutorial she conducted focused on the dos and don'ts of e-mails. Drawing on her own experience, she offered anecdotes of disastrously funny mistakes--like hitting REPLY to a Listserv message, not realizing everyone in the office would read a catty remark about a colleague. "You're teaching these women about relationships in the workplace," Ramsden says...
...When the slot fits the volunteer perfectly, the experience may even help answer the eternal question: What do I do with the rest of my life? Robert Kinney, 58, head of the Federal Public Defender's Office in Las Cruces, N.M., may have found his answer when he agreed to a stint for the International Senior Lawyers Project, which uses experienced attorneys to promote the rule of law around the world. After Kinney spent three months (pro bono, but with expenses paid) setting up Bulgaria's first public defender's office and a month in Mongolia on a similar mission...
...Late in the second period, Du scored the go-ahead goal when freshman wing Jason Fraser threw the puck into the middle of the ice and Du out-hustled a Dartmouth defenseman in a one-on-one battle. The pivot fell to one knee in the slot but beat the Big Green goalie anyway, giving the Crimson a crucial 3-2 lead going into the third period. “That’s a very special play,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91. “There?...
...compulsory course that gained notoriety amongst HBS graduates, “Written Analysis of Cases,” or “WAC,” as it was known for short. The course required first-year MBA students to submit biweekly papers, to be dropped off in a slot on the side of the library by 9 p.m. on Saturday, although this was later changed to Friday under pressure from students. “It forced each of us as students to integrate all of the course material we were learning and apply it to a problem...
...tough when you lose a coach,” Basilico said, “but in all honesty, it’s really become an opportunity for the team, and that’s the way we’re looking at it. We’ve got a slot that an ambitious coach could fill...