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...That's not to say that illegal insider trading is necessarily rampant among hedge funds. Considering that the typical fund was down by double digits in 2008 - a year in which hundreds went belly up - there's reason to believe that cheating (or at least competent cheating) isn't standard operating procedure...
...have been HIV-positive before the trial began. At a press conference at the Paris meeting, Dr. Nelson L. Michael, a virologist with the U.S. Military HIV Research Program, which helped run the $105 million trial, defended that statistical analysis, the "modified intent-to-treat, as the gold standard...
...forget that this is still a job interview. Even though you're not meeting face to face, dress as though you are. When you "walk in," have your résumé ready - this time, as an e-mail attachment. And don't forget to do all the standard prep work. Are you ready to talk about your greatest weakness? "This adds another layer, but people will still expect you to be prepared to have a conversation with them," says career counselor Judith Gerberg...
Harvard College Library—which administers Widener, Lamont, and Cabot Science Libraries—will keep standard business hours throughout the three-week January Term but will close most libraries during the preceding Winter Break due to staffing and budget constraints...
...what exactly would a Beauty Associate’s job entail? Would she (or he) be a wannabe Anna Wintour, dictating makeup tips and style advice? Would she be in charge of helping Her Campus perpetuate the single standard of beauty touted by just about all fashion and women’s magazines? What if an applicant has a really grotesque sense of beauty, one that doesn’t conform to the mostly thin, mainstream, well-manicured version that Her Campus (so far) seems to support? (Yes, we mean, what if you think the applicant is ugly...