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Finally, sit down with our military correspondent Mark Thompson's moving and powerful piece about the hard life of Army recruiters. Their job is one of the most stressful in the military: the number of recruiters who killed themselves last year was triple the overall Army rate. Mark details the tragic suicides of four members of a Texas battalion--men who had fought and survived the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq but were unable to handle the often brutal and unnecessary requirements of being a recruiter here at home. Mark's story is a morality tale about another hidden cost...
...King says. “I feel like we’re part of the jazz canon, because we are improvisers first and foremost.”But jazz isn’t the defining element of The Bad Plus, whose latest album features both original tracks and a number of covers, including renditions of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and Igor Stravinsky’s “Variations d’Apollon,” a 20th century classical piano piece. “We rework rock music, we play original...
...applied to a number of colleges in the fall of my senior year," Chu writes, "but because of my relatively lackluster A-average in high school, I was rejected by the Ivy League schools, but was accepted at Rochester. By comparison, my older brother was attending Princeton, two cousins were in Harvard and a third was at Bryn Mawr.... As I prepared to go to college, I consoled myself that I would be an anonymous student, out of the shadow of my illustrious family...
...Nobody wants to pay for services on the Internet,” Waldorf said, adding, “I think the Internet is at little bit of a crossroads right now.” His words of wisdom to the assembled budding entrepreneurs were simple. “My number one piece of advice: don’t go into consulting or banking.” Waldorf emphasized the importance of “facing the customer,” saying that resumes with experience in sales went to the top of his hire list. eHarmony, founded by psychologist...
...added that the number of categories ended up reaching eight because the Faculty was trying to accommodate professors in all disciplines. During faculty discussions, eight was seen as the upper limit for the number of categories...