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...market-skeptics, those who despise their I-banking peers, should take heart that entrepreneurs are revolutionaries of sorts, who shun conformity and yearn for the “creative destruction” that Schumpeter saw at the heart of capitalism’s dynamism. Hopefully, that is what the Class of 2007 will take away from this year’s commencement...
...seem to possess a relatively normal facebook profile, as nearly all college students do. Being on Facebook, at least at Harvard, might as well be a requirement that goes along with Expos as a ritual everyone must endure. While there are the few and the proud amongst us who shun Facebook, they are an all too miniscule minority. We’ve become a cult of addictees to the point that the phrase “drunken wall-post” is now a lexical mainstay...
This is part of the irony of Cosmo: It’s exactly the sort of publication the conservative matriarchs of my family shun, and yet the magazine itself reinforces some of those old-fashioned values. There are many good reasons to wait on sex, but fear of a boyfriend leaving you should not be one of them. Certainly, any man who would leave a woman because she slept with him too soon (or didn’t sleep with him soon enough), is not a man she should even be considering as a mate in the first place...
...anything but alone in her frustration with how traditional nonprofits are run. Too many charities cling to an outmoded mission statement, are slow to give volunteers assignments that excite them and perhaps shun older helpers. After enough vexation, "people throw up their hands and just say they'll start their own," says Marc Freedman, founder of Civic Ventures, which helps retirees find rewarding work and volunteer opportunities...
Elena Kagan, the dean of Harvard Law School, has joined over 100 leaders of other law schools around the country in signing a statement denouncing comments made by a senior government official who suggested that corporations should shun law firms that represent suspected terrorists...