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Jobs with titles like management consulting, asset manager and project analyst are mysterious enough in and of themselves. But the greater and more disturbing mystery is that so many seniors intensely vie for these positions. As much as we'd like to know how Goldman Sachs is going to give us an opportunity to step beyond the boundaries, we're far more desperate to find out why Harvard students heralded for their intelligence, diversity, creativity and talent are flocking toward firms where regardless of what their ads say, or what exactly they do, the paramount goal is to make money...
...beasts and hope they will pause long enough to slip one on before their urgencies of crotch propel them into the hedge. If they do not take the precaution, well, then, the fallback: a morning's visit to the abortionist. Melancholy, perhaps, but--um--c'est la vie. The condom-slinger's mentality takes a ruthlessly unennobled view of human nature. The young tend to fulfill expectations. Government-sponsored condom distribution announces that the society officially expects to get copulating dogs...
...some places, such as South Bend and Ann Arbor, the game is the centerpiece if a weekend-long celebration which consumes the entire school as thousands of alumni make a pilgrimage to join thousands of screaming students and watch their favorite sons vie for a national championship. Here in the Ivy League, of course, things are a little different. Far from seeing a great carnival, a person standing in the middle of the Yard might not even realize a game was going on, save for the occasional fly-by by the marching band...
Alfred E. Vellucci, the septuagenarian former Cambridge mayor and city councillor, said Wednesday he will vie for a seat in this year's city council elections, promising to run "even if my name doesn't appear on the ballot...
Eight of the nine incumbent city councillors are expected to vie for the nine open seats this fall. Jonathan S. Myers earlier this month announced his retirement from the council. Other candidates include current school committee member Henrietta S. Davis and Republican and gay rights activist Jonathan T. Spampinato...