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...identify with their Houses the way they did several decades ago. The first question an alum asks is, "What House are you in?" Today, we pose the question to fellow students as "Where do you live?" And with two major shocks to the House system during my brief stint at Harvard-the departure of five of the 12 residential masters, some who had served upwards of 20 years, and the complete randomization of House assignments-the future of the House system looks uncertain at best...
Except, perhaps, those seniors who have worked dorm crew themselves. Jason S. Cassidy '98 had a prolific dorm crew career, culminating his four year career with a stint as head captain. After cleaning up at Harvard, Cassidy went straight from four years of dorm crew to Wall Street and Salomon Smith Barney...
...consider the Harvard soon-to-be graduates yearning to join the ranks of the consultants at McKinsey or the I-bankers at Goldman Sachs. Many times, we will have all but mapped out our career path, which consists vaguely of a high-pressure two year program, a two-year stint across the river and then limitless possibilities. In many cases the entry-level job is nothing but a means to an end, so that the most substantive difference between McKinsey and Mitchell Madison is the former has a higher percentage of acceptances to Harvard Business School. Such an atmosphere does...
...FAST: Hard to believe, but there are people who may not want the impeachment trial to end. Sidney Blumenthal, for one, doesn't seem all that unhappy about being a witness. Others who are getting a rare stint in the spotlight...
Since leaving Detroit, Iacocca has fooled with an eclectic array of proposals, even serving a brief stint as chairman of Koo Koo Roo Chicken, the health-conscious fast-food chain. He turned down an early invitation to team up with inventor Malcolm Bricklin's electric-bike company. Yet Iacocca has been intrigued by electric propulsion since his early days at Ford, 50 years ago. "Thomas Edison promised Henry Ford he would be able to throw away the internal-combustion engine," he says. "It's 100 years later, and we're just now seeing some progress...