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...across the country last year. Deb Carroll, assistant director of the Office of Career Services for employer relations, said that “the number of students who attend these events has been significant.” She added that the CIA was getting more attention at the Career Forum this fall than it did two to three years ago. “We are always received very warmly by Harvard,” said Harf. The CIA looks for people who are highly qualified, motivated to serve their country, and who have skills such as foreign language abilities...
...however, lies with a swimming coach at Colgate University, Sam Ingram, who brought his team down to Fort Lauderdale in 1936 to train at the Casino Pool - the first Olympic-size swimming pool in Florida. In 1938, sensing a marketing opportunity, the city hosted the first College Coaches' Swim Forum at the Casino Pool; according to one source, by 1938 more than 300 swimmers were competing at the event, and a bacchanal was born. The tradition of college swimmers traipsing to Florida in droves continued well into the swinging 60s. TIME first highlighted spring break in an April 1959 article...
...Speaking at the forum, Brown described what he called a "progressive moment," given the fact that the global financial meltdown has shattered the faith of governments around the world in unrestrained free-market solutions, and prompted an outcry for an alternative that places greater emphasis on social justice and care for the environment...
...forum was the brainchild of "Third Way" pioneers of the 1990s, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former U.S. President Bill Clinton, both of whom had sought to govern by marrying some of the social concerns of the traditional social-democratic left with the market-oriented economic growth strategies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Today, a similar outlook is shared by the moderate leftist parties that govern in Latin America's biggest economies, such as Brazil, Argentina and Chile. And the current global economic crisis would appear to be an auspicious moment for political leaders whose central message...
...neither Brown nor any of his colleagues at the forum were able to provide policy answers to the questions posed by the British prime minister. The meeting's final communique was filled with boilerplate calls for putting people first, reforming financial institutions, building a foundation for a new, fairer economy and such, but it offered few ideas on how any of this could be done...