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...annual Big East Career Day in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden; others were kept out to make room for 135 private-sector employers. This year, just 80 private companies signed up for the March 13 event, where 30 federal agencies will be on hand accepting résumés. "The good news is, the Federal Government is definitely hiring," Kerr says. Still, according to the NACE report, the projected increase is less than 6%. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...never be more than about three feet tall. It's a very tough physical existence. But these kids are really, really bright. They are a terrific group of kids. If you meet kids with OI, they're usually sweet and funny and so much more than the sum of their disability, which is probably, the biggest lesson that Willow can give us as a character...
...sumé is the kind that Presidents love to promote: Harvard Law, Rhodes Scholar, named in 1994 by TIME as one of "America's 50 Most Promising Leaders Under 40." She ran health services in her home state of Tennessee, worked in the Clinton White House on health policy in the early 1990s and oversaw the Medicare and Medicaid programs at that decade's end. Since then she has become a highly sought-after corporate, academic and foundation consultant, earning enough money with her husband, New York Times reporter Jason DeParle, to buy a $3 million house in the Washington...
...procurement policy. The selection of Dr. Carter is especially wise given the acute economic crisis. In January, President Obama inherited an inefficient national-security apparatus that has become accustomed to bloated budgets and continual cost overruns; last year, the Pentagon spent $104.3 billion on weapons procurement alone. This staggering sum, however, represented less than one-fifth of the Defense Department’s total budget of more than $515 billion. Since President Obama has made cutting the massive federal deficit a major priority of his administration, a modest reduction in defense spending is an attractive and intelligent choice. In particular...
...Bair had good reason to be out on the stump. She knew that on Thursday the FDIC would release its report on the health of the country's savings institutions. Now the report is out, and you can sum up what it says about American banks in one word: sick. "There is no question that this is one of the most difficult periods we have encountered during the FDIC's 75 years of operation," said Bair, commenting on the report. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...