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These shortcomings of competence and diversity are both annual and entrenched, but not impossible to remedy. The administration might try publicizing the position more widely to attract new candidates for the application, or it might move the application deadline from the spring to the fall so that the position would draw interest from students who still have all their options open. It might look outside of the Harvard undergraduate population for a more experienced event planner to hire; the additional salary expenses would be more than offset in money saved by avoiding needless monetary waste. Most radically, University Hall might...
...could hardly have dreamed of a better promotional gimmick when they started to investigate the backgrounds of the dozens of pop-star wannabes to root out the competitors' mushy stories of triumph over adversity that are a well-worn staple of the genre. Here was a tale guaranteed to attract eyeballs: a girl of mixed race, brought up by a single Chinese mother, struggling to gain acceptance in a deeply conservative, some would say racist, society...
...trading activity now, Goldman says it could lose as much as $250 million in a day should its bets go wrong, up 30% from a year ago. What's more, even though Goldman has become a bank holding company, like Morgan, it has done little to begin to attract more deposits...
...attract more customers, the Talbots unwittingly launched a catalog business in 1948 by sending a flyer to 3,000 people whose names they had culled from a New Yorker subscription list. Their timing was perfect. As shopping habits shifted, Talbots became a staple for suburban women...
...utterly predictable romance. “Love Happens” traces a hackneyed storyline—complete with dramatic slow-clap in the final scene—but ultimately entertains thanks to the strength of its dead-on humor (literally). While the title was clearly meant to attract a lighthearted crowd in search of a happy ending and a few laughs along the way, the main character’s struggle to overcome his own grief emerges as the central, and most compelling, narrative. The film opens as Burke arrives in Seattle to lead a grief seminar...