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...Yankees Suck? A couple of recent college graduates and Red Sox fans who don't want their names used here. They've all got real jobs, but in their spare time they have made it their mission, as their Web site (www.yankees-suck.com) boasts, to get all of "Red Sox Nation outfitted in this shirt...
...spare you the suspense. It should come as no surprise to most undergraduates that the consulting industry constituted the largest category of employers, with a whopping 41 companies sending representatives. Close behind in terms of numbers were the investment banking and computer technology firms, the latter having long shed their Silicon Valley grunge. Here and there were token "alternatives"--Teach for America, the Peace Corps, the Walt Disney Corporation--some of whose employees chose to wear clothes that tended (gasp) more toward casual Fridays than toward Wall Street...
...longer. Even when living conditions are spare and amenities few, people find volunteer vacationing an enriching experience. In Ghana, Carnright, 74, stayed in a hostel-style building with seven other volunteers, sharing simple meals of rice and chicken or fish and fruit. "It was a healthy experience," she says. And not all that expensive: the $1,850 program fee, not including airfare, is tax deductible...
...This is going to cost them a little money, but, frankly, money that they can spare," he said...
With money to spare, Knafel has decided it's time to give back, and to encourage others to do the same through his example...