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...university hospital in Bern in 1984. Though he loved working closely with patients, it bothered him that he knew little about business, especially because he had begun to invest modestly in stocks. Four years of psychoanalysis, Vasella says, helped free him "from the rules and obligations one imposes on oneself" and give him the courage to leap into a new career. In 1987 he sought the advice of Max Link, the well-connected and accessible head of the drug business for Swiss conglomerate Sandoz. Vasella was offered a job and sent to learn the ropes at the company's headquarters...
...certain kind of mold from destroying the wheat by offering animal sacrifices to the god of mildew. We remember those we love on Valentine's Day, those we revere on Easter or Passover or Ramadan, those we fear on Halloween. Thanksgiving was a celebration of harvest, the stuffing of oneself a natural response to all the work that once went into managing one's crops and now goes into managing one's relatives. Just as meals and sleep and work and recess pace the days, so do holidays pace the year. Clump them together, and they lose their fizz...
...true Harvard style, one mostly closeted Harvard sophomore has come out to the financial world making frequent appearances at BGLT recruiting events. If there was ever a warm and supportive audience to out oneself to… In other memorable outing events, Harvard’s resident FB BJ lady is currently dating a middle-aged goth with a Michael Flatley-esque ’do. Guess that demographic in the College is even slimmer than the closeted opportunist i-banking hopeful… Not slim enough: a slew of Harvard mamas turned away from Project East, after being explicitly...
...home. If I am to be true to myself, I’ll need state-funded healthcare, official bilingualism, and curling to survive.I didn’t come to that realization flushed with patriotism, however, but with profound insecurity. Being an unapologetic Canadian at an American university means setting oneself up for a painful break-up at the end of four years. By heading for home, one kisses one’s classmates, nascent New Yorkers all, goodbye. Even more difficult is abruptly ending a four-year long romp with the American dream, bidding farewell to the expectations of greatness...
...road. We can go the well-worn corporate route, pursuing careers in finance or consulting and working 100 hours a week to afford apartments in Manhattan that, for new hires, are little more than crash pads between marathon workdays. The other option, equally dismal, is to devote oneself purely to the far-less-traveled path of public service and take on constant financial worry along with a set of seemingly intractable problems to solve. Depending on which camp a senior aligns herself with, either those who choose the corporate world are venal or those who don?...