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...Clearly, there are good arguments on both sides about the no-release policy. And were HBS only proposing to adopt an optional release policy, the debate would be less heated. Student bodies at the business schools of Stanford and the University of Chicago have done end-runs around official policy by banding together to enforce no-release policies over the official optional release policies of their schools. Since students own their grades, as the Staff note, they should be able to do with them what they want. HBS administrators, however, are saying that if this optional release policy is adopted...
...little. When New York friends tell me they have “suburban day” at their high school when they dress the same, unfashionable way or when people criticize Boston as a diet city, it makes me question whether I want to live in New York and adopt that perspective...
...common cause. Virtually every household supported the relief effort. People realized that even the most minute contribution meant a lot. Citizens left their jobs and universities to go to affected areas and help in any way they could. Expatriate Pakistanis all over the world expressed their desire to adopt orphans. It was as if the whole country had suddenly changed from a self-interested, disunited nation into a warmhearted cohesive force facing the disaster. That made me realize that in any hour of need, Pakistan shall not fail. Agha Ali Murtaza Lahore, Pakistan...
...common cause. Virtually every household supported the relief effort. People realized that even the most minute contribution meant a lot. Citizens left their jobs and universities to go to affected areas and help in any way they could. Expatriate Pakistanis all over the world expressed their desire to adopt orphans. It was as if the whole country had suddenly changed from a self-interested, disunited nation into a warmhearted, cohesive force facing the disaster. That made me realize that in any hour of need, my country, my nation, my Pakistan shall not fail. Agha Ali Murtaza Lahore, Pakistan The west...
...Basically, you should adopt the anachronistic theory of “orientalism”: The purpose of visiting a foreign land is not to interact with the land itself, but rather to sample the “local goods...