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...have experienced a moment of deja vu. Was this not faintly reminiscent of that other mental meat market, the Freshman Activities Fair? True, the screaming upperclassmen with their in-your-face heckling have been replaced by well-dressed, well-heeled members of the "real world" who wait instead for us to come and find them. And there's no question that the handouts are a lot more enticing--free T-shirts and playing cards are certainly a step up from a fistful of candy and four years' worth of worthless e-mails from a mailing list you just...
Moreover, the lack of comparable alternatives was almost embarrassing. The "media," "accounting" and "insurance" categories contained only one company each; surely, it is not merely arrogance that leads us to believe that there must be other firms in those fields eager to recruit Harvard graduates (though we do acknowledge that the wealth of the firms represented allows them to come to the fair with greater ease). In the future, we would hope that the event's organizers would redouble their efforts to attract a wide variety of industries...
...pursuing this neo-isolationist policy, the US has hurt not only its credibility with other nations, but its own interests as well. Since the U.S. does not currently conduct nuclear tests, ratifying the treaty would have little effect on U.S. policy--but it would have induced other countries to change their currently hazardous policies...
...would be a shame if the US failed to prevent nuclear war because a few angry Senators wanted to give Clinton a "black...
This time, it seems, he was warning us about irrational panic. "Greenspan knew about the Producer Price Index numbers ahead of time," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl, referring to the big scary inflation number that ? along with Alan Greenspan?s own Thursday night speech about an "asset bubble" ? threw the markets into an early-morning tailspin Friday. "He warned about wild fluctuations because he knew how the market would react to the bad news about producer prices, and his role is to warn investors that an adjustment in stock prices could come quickly...