Word: busyness
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Designing and supporting advising programs in a place where faculty, administrators, and students constantly tell us how busy they are is a challenge. What we promote (and desire fervently) is that students and advisers spend time together to build effective, substantive relationships. Advising does not arise from brief encounters. It...
In a universe where people are this busy, when do they slow down to talk to one another, to share meaningful stories, to provide transformative moments for one another? This is something that we worry about every day.
Just as the voters of Iowa hadn't wanted to be told that Clinton was the inevitable nominee, Democrats in New Hampshire weren't much in the mood to be told that her candidacy was toast, that their votes were futile. In the final hours, the undecideds, who often end...
2. Promoting democracy. There are certainly people in Iraq, Lebanon and a few pockets here and there who are grateful for Bush's call for liberty in the Middle East. The problem is that it is widely seen as being insincere at best and hypocritical at worst. Few doubt that...
It was only a matter of time. A suicide bomber struck in the Pakistani city of Lahore today, ending a two-week lull since the spate of spontaneous violence that followed the December 27 assassination of former prime minister and parliamentary candidate Benazir Bhutto. At least 23 riot police were...