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Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's in a Weave? | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...Palestine is by some counts 70% of the adult population. Mohammad Naja, a management consultant who runs the foundation's program there, says university students "learn theory, not practical application." To address this gap, foundation students undergo a crash course in business English, then a mini-M.B.A. boot camp devised by the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business that places them in real-life business situations in which, for instance, accounting graduates perform simulated audits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gainful Employment | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...that followed - just not in the way Hitchens describes. Like Graham, Templeton was young and handsome; he was also the more talented preacher. But his growing spiritual questions led him to leave the sawdust trail in 1948 for Princeton Theological Seminary to put himself through a kind of theological boot camp. He tried to talk Graham into coming with him; Graham's unquestioning faith in the literal truth of the Bible, he said, amounted to intellectual suicide. He tried to phrase it in Graham's own terms: "You cannot disobey Christ's great commandment to love God with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Christopher Hitchens Is Wrong About Billy Graham | 9/18/2007 | See Source »

...joked that it was like boot camp,” Joseph P. Shivers ’10, a member of Sommers’ “The Art of the Essay” Expos 20 class, said. “Everybody in the class came out better writers...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Expos Director Exits | 8/28/2007 | See Source »

...through one-off cash injections and changes to employee benefits. Two months later, "Slasher" - as Walsh was known at the Irish carrier for culling a third of its staff while rescuing it from the brink - went to work on BA's head count. Hundreds of senior managers got the boot. Soon afterward, he unveiled a blueprint for shrinking BA's costs by close to $1 billion, partly through further job cuts. With fewer bills to pay, BA looks set to hit its target operating margin of 10% next year, its highest ever. With its debts reduced, credit agencies have raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Airways: Cabin Pressure | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

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