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Sexy sounding it's not, but corporate volunteerism is all the rage, as more companies wise up to the decisive benefits of good corporate citizenship and employees, in a world awash with disaster victims, feel the need to give. Eighty-six percent of respondents to a 2005 Business Strengthening America survey said they believed that volunteering adds to a company's strategic value. Here's what some of the most generous firms are doing to mobilize their staff...
While these concerns should not cause students to reduce their profiles to nothing more than bland biographical information or superficial résumés, a certain level of prudence, say, not featuring oneself chugging a bottle of champagne or doing a keg stand, would be wise. Being a member of “The Blackout Club” or “I Party My Liver Away All Over the World” might say something of a student’s character that seems funny to us college students, but which might scream something else to a potential...
DIED. PAT MORITA, 73, actor nominated for an Academy Award for his quietly wise, wry Mr. Miyagi, the martial-arts mentor in 1984's The Karate Kid and its three sequels; of natural causes; in Las Vegas. Born in California to migrant fruit-pickers, Morita lived in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. At 30, the aspiring comic gave up his day job to focus on acting, first winning national fame as Arnold, owner of the restaurant favored by Fonzie and friends in the sitcom Happy Days...
...DIED. PAT MORITA, 73, actor nominated for an Academy Award for his wise, wry Mr. Miyagi, the martial-arts mentor in 1984's The Karate Kid and its three sequels; in Las Vegas. Born in California to migrant fruit-pickers, Morita lived with his family in a U.S. internment camp for Japanese during World War II. The aspiring comic entered show business at 30 and first won national fame as Arnold, manager of the teen hangout in the 1970s-'80s sitcom Happy Days...
...sins against, and services to, humanity. He was not nasty and was not a saint. Ascribing simplistic judgments to such an unusual life is fruitless. Seeing Rousseau’s life in full releases the reader from the need to simplify.“Restless Genius” is, wisely, not a reinterpretation of Rousseau’s oeuvre, partly because Damrosch refrains from assuming that the reader is familiar with Rousseau’s writing. If he did assume such a familiarity, the book would be horribly inaccessible and unreadable for most people. Of course, Damrosch pays close attention...