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While missing out on a life of danger, consulting-crazed undergraduates do get to look forward to other forms of excitement and a culture all its own. Finance taught me first and foremost of the Manhattan salad bar—where a salad costs $8, but is teeming with ingredients of your own selection, doused with dressing and prepared (tossed) as you watch. Second, I learned about collecting “points”—the lifeblood of consultants on the go. “Points” are well known, and go by many names?...
...darkened rooms and glow-in-the-dark props and hot dogs renamed goblin fingers. When the kids put on the Sorting Hat that determines the fate of young wizards in the book, they were all put in Slytherin, the home of the evil Voldemort; the way out, they were taught, could only come from following what God teaches. "I have never seen children so excited about a church event, just absolutely mesmerized," Williams says. And what did they learn from it all? "No one can do miracles but God," says Abigail Haggerty, 5. "It showed how Harry Potter...
Imagine that most of the 9/11 hijackers were French, that the French government encouraged extremism, that French churches taught hatred and financed terrorists. Would the French President or Foreign Minister be invited to dine at the White House or President Bush's ranch? That privilege, believe it or not, was enjoyed by the Saudis, who have mastered the art of diverting U.S. public attention from themselves every time the spotlight shines on them. And the Bush Administration swallows it, hook, line and sinker. It's time the American media and public realize they're being taken for a ride. GAUTHAM...
Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel. He once said his favorite philosopher was Jesus. I assume he meant the same Jesus who taught that "no one can serve two masters. You cannot serve both God and Mammon." Politicians aren't saints, but is it unfair to ask whom George Bush was serving last week...
...based in Chicago. High-volume stores such as Kmart and Target hold prices down in part by keeping payroll expenses low, generally less than 5% of sales. Stores like the Gap or Abercrombie & Fitch may spend double that. But even at discount king Wal-Mart, "associates have always been taught that they should smile and make eye contact," Dion says. "So you can ask them a question, and they'll be polite when they tell you they don't know. Or they'll try to get you the answer...