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...about, ask for a new bartender. As you mingle, make a splash with conversation topics like the Israel lobby, eating poor people, boat shoes, croquet mallet technology, and LOLcatz. When you shake a member’s hand, give him a firm wink and slip him a fiver. Make sure you’ve written a funny speech balloon coming out of Lincoln’s mouth. (Suggestion: “A club without [insert your name] cannot stand.”) Give him an extra copy of your résumé carried in your rolling backpack. (Mind...
...long because a sponsor must first familiarize herself with the unique tenure process of each of the College’s 44 departments and those departments affiliated with our 13 other schools. Since Harvard faculty and administrators are very protective of their own domains, the sponsor must make sure that the proposal takes existing resources into account, such as those available through Human Resources or the Association of Black Faculty, Administrators, and Fellows. Next, a sponsor needs to solicit advice from numerous associate, provisional, and otherwise-affiliated deans. Such consultations serve the dual purpose of providing feedback and potentially garnering...
...started out as t-shirts I wanted to wear, and then my friends started liking them, so it began expanding naturally.” Sung’s creative process for coming up with these designs? “Sketch, then make a prototype, and finally make sure the factories can reproduce it in bulk.” But for the FM Fast Fashion Challenge, time is of the essence. Her creative process is more direct: sketch, sew, and braid. At noon on Saturday, four hours before the end of the challenge and six and a half hours before...
...noted that America had never "met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time." Americans had a lot to be proud of back then: World War I was thoroughly behind them, radio had been invented, and automobiles were growing cheaper and more popular. Sure, the disparity between the rich and the poor had widened within the past decade, but Americans could now buy goods on installment plans - a relatively new concept - and families could afford more than ever before. Stocks were on a tear: between 1924 and 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average quadrupled...
...last hour of trading on Thursday, Oct. 23, 1929, stock prices suddenly plummeted. When the closing bell rang at 3 p.m. people were shaken. No one was sure what had just happened, but that evening provided enough time for fear and panic to set in. When the market opened again the next day, prices plunged with renewed violence. Stock transactions in those days were printed on ticker tape, which could only produce 285 words a minute. Thirteen million shares changed hands - the highest daily volume in the exchange's history at that point - and the tape didn't stop running...