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...years, my motto was "everything in moderation, except resumes." But now I understand that there is more to life than resumes. There are also cover letters, and, of course, envelopes...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Do the Resume Thing | 2/1/1990 | See Source »

...favors, no excuses." That was the motto Corazon Aquino vowed to follow after her People Power movement toppled the corrupt regime of Ferdinand Marcos. But in the tumultuous four years since Aquino became President, charges of incompetence and graft have increasingly tainted her own government. When rebellious soldiers launched the seventh abortive coup against Aquino on Dec. 1, their most pointed complaints focused on the administration's failure to deliver basic services and on allegations of corruption among the President's wealthy and influential relatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Cory, Coups and Corruption | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...some of the nation's top corporate minds, has decided that it will no longer give away its profitable name gratis. By January 1991, companies that produce everything from sweat shirts to chairs to coffee mugs emblazoned with the name Harvard, the university coat of arms or the motto VERITAS (truth) will have to pay for the privilege. Despite an endowment of some $4.5 billion, the oldest U.S. university can always find uses for an extra $500,000 a year, the amount that the trademark license could eventually produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Seat of Higher (L)earning | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...Gotta Do Watcha Gotta Do": According to The Harvard Independent's sportswriter Don K. Cornwell '92, that's the motto of Indy Player of the Week Ronald P. Mitchell '92, who plays on Harvard's men's basketball team. Cornwell should know: He's Mitchell's blockmate in Currier House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

...dual-submission policy to slack off. On the other hand, however, when students are punished for their honesty in requesting dual submissions, then these students might as well return the favor the next time by dual submitting without permission. If the University wants to live up to its motto of Veritas, it needs to reconsider the current guidelines along which the dual submission policy rests...

Author: By Daniel M. Cogan, | Title: Is Honesty the Best Policy? | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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