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...drawbacks to I-banking and consulting is that they don't sell a product besides the intellects of their employees. At the most basic level, they're in the business of solving other people's problems. But when you work for a company that actually makes things, you've got to solve your own problems every day, an endeavor which is, to my mind, much more rewarding. In big companies, some of the most interesting work is in business development, the part of the company that is concerned with strategy. When a company "partners" with another firm, buys another firm...
...first and most basic underscored lesson is that Americans are frustrated with government. This angle can be put into any story, pitting an innocent David against the Goliath-like government. A closely-related variant of this first rule--one that should catch the eye of any college student--is the talk of how youth are divorced from politics...
...seep across borders with less resistance. "It is virtually impossible to isolate the European countries from one another," European Commission President Romano Prodi said recently. "We are all one big country." But such bromides only bolster European fears about lost national identity and fuel suspicions that even the most basic concerns of life, such as what we eat, are determined by the ruthless logic of the global marketplace and the unaccountable corporations and bureaucrats who run it. It's no surprise that the bse crisis has coincided with a crisis of confidence about European integration: a recent poll...
...know A&E? The channel dubbed "Arts & Entertainment" that shows biographies and makes original movies based on The Great Gatsby? About as high culture as you can get on basic cable? Well, they have a new show hosted by, of all people, Terry Bradshaw. It's called The Competition. Check out this Friday's episode, which includes a Best Mule-Pulled Wagon race...
Iraq is barred from importing even the most basic medicine and medical supplies. Antibiotics and infant vaccinations are denied because American and British officials worry that such drugs will be used to create chemical weapons. For many Iraqi doctors, the most effective weapon at their disposal for fighting life-threatening diseases is a bottle of aspirin. Iraq is not even allowed to import the parts necessary for repairing the water filtration plants that were damaged during the Gulf...