Kate Aitken
Kate Aitken
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BUSINESS COLUMN | Aitken: Barbie dolls and Ponzi schemes
During Career Month in kindergarten, our teacher told us to go home, ask our parents what they did for a living and present at show-and-tell the next day.
Playin’ it cool at the ’Fino
Portofino feels like a neighborhood restaurant without any trace of characteristic local flavor.
Not that into this
“You’re not the exception — you’re the rule.” That’s the blunt insight Justin Long shares with an endearingly idealistic Ginnifer Goodwin in “He’s Just Not That Into You,” the much-anticipated film adaptation of the bestselling self-help book by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tucillo.
Aitken: ‘Life After Yale’: maybe I should learn to budget
I spent more on clothes last summer than I did on two months’ rent in New York City.
DOLCI: Let’s make love and eat chocolate in the dark
Dolci likes its chocolate dark — and its decor darker. Nestled between walls painted the deepest shade of Bordeaux red, intimate candlelit tables provide the only source of light in the back room of this swanky new State Street bistro.
A slice and a scoop
Clark’s is your mother’s diner, if your mother lived in Middle America circa 1950.
BOND: No gadgets, no love
In the interest of full disclosure, I should probably admit that I’m a Bond girl. Not an actual Bond girl, of course — hey, I can dream — but a girl raised on the original Bond films. I can name all the movies in chronological order, I know Halle Berry doesn’t hold a candle to Ursula Andress in a bikini, and if you argue that anyone was a better Bond than Sean Connery, I will fight you to the death. That said, the new Bond movie “Quantum of Solace” is a letdown.
Aitken: A job on Wall St.: Are you crazy?
You’ve heard it all before. The Wall Street crisis. The financial meltdown. The economic apocalypse. The markets are crashing and, with it, your hopes of a cushy post-grad I-banking career.
Yalies adapt to immersion abroad
Different study abroad programs afford students different types of immersion experiences, ranging from the academic to the cultural to the linguistic. Two of the most popular study abroad options for Yalies — Oxford and Cambridge in England and Buenos Aires in Argentina — each boast highly unique opportunities for immersion, depending on what students are seeking to get out of their time away from Yale.
Faculty applaud architect choice
New SOM building will support new curriculum
The choice of Lord Norman Foster ARC ’62 to design the School of Management’s new campus drew praise this week, as professors said Foster will continue the University’s tradition of cutting-edge architecture.