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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...William Wright-Swadel, director of the Office of Career Services, which manages Harvard candidates for fellowships, says that increased grades has made competition for prized fellowships "very stiff...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Grade Inflation Becomes an Educational Fact of College Life | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Director of OCS William Wright-Swadel sees some additional reasons for the love triangle between Harvard, consulting and investment banking...

Author: By Justin D. Lerer, | Title: New Recruits | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...Wright-Swadel also cites a reason for going through recruiting similar to the one Sir Edmund Hilary gave for climbing Mt. Everest: because it was there...

Author: By Justin D. Lerer, | Title: New Recruits | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...evacuees were carried out to helicopters on stretchers. For most of those caught in the crossfire, it was a harrowing ordeal, one that included being robbed by rebel soldiers loyal to coup leader Maj. Johnny Paul Koroma. They've made the area "a very dangerous place," said Ann Wright, the American Embassy official overseeing the evacuation. "These are a bunch of thugs and lunatics, having a free reign of terror with the army joining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sierra Leone | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...foreigners, among them some 300 Americans, in batches of up to 55 while Nigerian peacekeeping troops stood guard at the hotel entrance. The U.S. Embassy has already shut down its operations in the capital. Embassy staff were headed for Conakry, the capital of neighboring Guinea, said embassy spokeswoman Anne Wright as she boarded the day's final helicopter. At least 22 other governments had asked the United States to move their nationals out, Wright said; there was not room enough for all. "We are very sorry we could not have everybody on board who wanted to go," she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friends in High Places | 5/30/1997 | See Source »

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