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...game’s essential elements, though, leave its rulebook remarkably open to variation when played in different settings...
...high-paying finance and consulting sectors, which just three years ago hired 47 percent of seniors intending to work right after graduation, came in comparatively low at 30.52 percent, though that figure represents a rise from 20 percent last year, when companies slashed hiring levels as Wall Street grappled with the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression...
...percentage of seniors planning to work this year also rose slightly from 59.7 percent to 61.4 percent, while the proportion applying to graduate school fell by a corresponding amount from 24.6 to 22.9, though these changes were not statistically significant. Last year saw an increase in students headed for graduate school and a decrease in the number looking for jobs, as seniors faced the bleakest employment prospects in recent memory...
Since Rachel’s graduation, the couple has been living in Washington. Scott is finishing his junior year at Georgetown—though he is older than Rachel, he took time off from college to serve a Mormon mission in Mississippi—while Rachel translates research papers from Chinese to English and works as a research assistant to a Chinese studies professor at Georgetown. Next year, she will hold a one-year fellowship with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
...Though the locations outside of Cambridge eventually had to be shut down, White continued to operate out of the original store in the Square...