Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When I lived in Texas, it was hard to get a job if you didn't go to school in Texas," says Moore, who is now president of the Rocky Mountain Harvard Club, based in Denver. "There, if you went to Harvard, people just knew it as somewhere that wasn't in Texas...
...clear across the Pacific Ocean, the significance of the Harvard name can be taken out of proportion. "If you went to Harvard, or graduated from there, you are automatically elevated to some sort of 'elite' realm," says Misasha C. Suzuki '99, a Japanese citizen who works for JP Morgan in Tokyo. "Harvard is the key to basically opening up whatever you want in Japan...
...much where you went to school or what degree you have," he says. "It's what your skill...
...Harvard's labor disputes reached a happy ending this week, as picket lines disbanded and the striking members of a local union went to work for a new contractor...
Addressing concerns that aid was wasted, he cited statistics showing that many aid dollars went directly to debt relief...