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...Made Us Do It. What do Yahweh, the Buddha and David Letterman have in common? They love them some lists! There's something magical about distilling wisdom into a single gleaming digit, which may be why so many religions use lists, from the Eightfold Path to the 95 Theses to the show-offy 613 laws of the Torah. An essay on morality would have been more nuanced than 10 commandments but harder to remember. And the tablets would have given Moses a hernia...
...Gopalakrishnan, one of the founders and the current CEO, says Infosys built that culture from the ground up. "We said, If we're going to make it a success, there have to be some rules, some common values, some structure to the whole thing." That included a strict ban on nepotism and a compulsory retirement age of 60. Founding CEO N.R. Narayana Murthy, who still flies coach despite a net worth estimated at $1 billion, says the break with the past was deliberate: "We had to aspire to global standards, especially if we wanted to attract investors from abroad." When...
...country's most compelling citizens - to their ability to make whites "think well of themselves"? Millions of black and white Americans deeply admire Oprah Winfrey and Senator Obama for their character, energy and ideas, not because of skin color or guilt. Every step Americans take toward common ground will bring all those who sell hopelessness a step closer to a richly deserved obscurity. Margaret E. Young, WEATHERFORD, TEXAS...
Foreman’s thesis was inspired by an economic theory that proposes the ability to behave altruistically or spitefully benefits an individual in the long term. Consideration of inequalities in rewards is common among humans, but Foreman’s question is whether perceived inequality could make tamarins engage in spiteful behavior, sacrificing a small reward in order to deny another monkey a larger...
...focused ethnic studies programs or secondary concentrations could prove problematic on many fronts. First, a proliferation of narrowly tailored secondary concentrations in, say, Jewish-American studies or Arab-American studies, could lead to an unnecessary balkanization of academic disciplines. The experiences of ethnic minorities in America have much in common, and students of different ethnicities in America could learn much from each other’s theoretical, analytical, and historical insights. Several scattered programs with only a few relevant courses each would be unlikely to encourage such dialogue.While it is true that African-American studies has its own department...