Word: steve
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...count myself with Meghan as one of the lucky ones. My friend Steve was a pre-med in college, and wanted to take a year off after college to take his MCATs and apply to med school. But faced with the prospect of a year off, he turned to OCS to find something meaningful to do. He should have gone into the Peace Corps...
What he ended up with was a two-year contract at a high-powered investment bank with free fancy dinners and no time after-hours to fill out his applications to medical school. Now Steve says he may never go to medical school. When I ask him if he likes his job, he doesn't really have an answer...
...highest-paid pro athletes, with an average annual salary of $2.6 million, want to retain the ability to earn unlimited pay as free agents. "There is no reason why we should be restricted in what we're making while the owners are cashing in," says Chicago Bulls guard Steve Kerr. The owners insist on a firm salary cap for each team, to reduce the share of revenue that goes to players. (Last year it was 57% of about $1.7 billion.) To that end, the owners have proposed phasing out the so-called Larry Bird exception, which lets each team break...
...lawyers that their last-minute offer of $2 million to settle the suit before it goes to appeal Tuesday had fallen flat in the White House. And Bennett also said his current $700,000 offer wouldn't be on the table forever. Jones herself, egged on by husband Steve and spokeswoman Susan Carpenter McMillan, had decided to up the ante and demand $1 million from both Clinton and New York parking lot magnate Abe Hirschfeld. Her lawyers argued bitterly against such a plan, seen as an unrealistic money grab. As they expected, the Clinton camp scoffed. Jones had better hope...
...seem a risky legal strategy to some. Nevertheless, the DOJ and 20 states are pursuing it with full vigor. Their previous court filings have already accused Gates of personally directing the effort to leverage Windows' monopoly to Microsoft's advantage in the browser market; now the states' lead attorney, Steve Houck, is blasting the billionaire for not being on his own firm's witness list. "Given Mr. Gates's key role in these events," said Houck, "the only explanation for his failure to appear is his lack of intestinal fortitude." Calling Bill Gates gutless -- now there's something guaranteed...