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...design session to a fire-pit party—or so the recruiters from Abercombie and Fitch are hoping. About 40 upperclassmen attended A&F’s corporate info session Oct. 9, where chill employees and an even chiller video (techno, anyone?) presented the company’s summer internships for juniors and job opportunities for graduates in fashion merchandising. “We want nice, smart people that understand our brand,” says college recruiter Josh R. Secrest, a 2004 Yale graduate. The smart sweeties that make it past the first-round interview will travel...
...acknowledged a decline in available positions, which she attributed to the growing popularity of junior summer internships. These internships often lead to job offers before the end of senior year...
...internship gave her a sense of security, she said, adding that when the mortgage crisis hit while she was interning over the summer, she was concerned it could affect her firm’s ability to extend full-time offers...
...this year, the Lebanese army's manpower was stretched to the limit with security commitments in Beirut, along the southern border with Israel, the eastern border with Syria and in the north of the country where troops fought a bloody three-month battle against Islamist militants during the summer hashish growing season. Furthermore, the hashish farmers threatened to burn down the houses of local tractor owners who are hired each year by the government to plough up the illegal crops...
...Next summer's Olympics will showcase a China of glittering skyscrapers and overstuffed store shelves. But the government responsible for this economic miracle continues to imprison political activists, restrict religious freedom, tightly control the media and Internet, and protect its citizens only haphazardly from pollution and unsafe food and consumer products, a congressional panel reported Friday...