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...found Monday's article about Lord Runcie of Cuddesdon's visit to Memorial Church most entertaining, although I must confess it was entirely for the wrong reasons...
...Working Paper on the Core program drawn up by yourself and the other members of the Review Committee is a report that we had anxiously anticipated in the hope of constructive proposals for reform. After reading the Paper, however, we must confess our disappointment with the Committee's adherence to and defense of a broken status quo, as well as our disturbance at the patronizing attitude with which students' opinions about the Core have been dismissed...
...fact I can't name anywhere else has as much to do with the fact that randomization has left no clear choices, as it does with my own slowly developing allegiance to Mather. But I must reluctantly confess that so far randomization hasn't been nearly as bad as expected. Rooming problems remain an issue for some, but the administration has done all right. No, nothing is ever perfect but it appears that the stated goals of randomization will be accomplished. People will always transfer for a variety of reasons but the decline in transfers is significant. Houses will have...
Chief executives don't often confess corporate sins in public. But during a recent hearing at the suburban Maryland headquarters of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, an electric-utility boss named Bruce Kenyon did just that. Kenyon, a respected nuclear-industry veteran with a raspy voice and a cocksure style, last fall became president, CEO and designated savior of Northeast Utilities' nuclear division, which operates five commercial reactors in New England. "At the time I arrived, [Northeast] was as close to a dysfunctional organization as I have ever encountered," he told the NRC. "The fundamental problem was leadership...
...giving up your career. I'll confess my own snobbery about teaching. Like most Harvard students, I consider teaching the noblest profession, and honestly, some days I still consider myself somewhat above it. Six hour days spent diagramming sentences with boring ten-year-olds--this is what I wrote a thesis...