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With membership falling by 250,000 in just five years, the Scouts have done a lot of soul searching. The group hired a management consultant and marketing team and laid out a "core business strategy" to make its programs "more purposeful," as one executive put it. Although November is cookie month - your doorbell may be ringing - the Scouts don't want to be known for cookies and camping anymore. Instead, executives use phrases like "outcomes-based," "pathways," "gap teams," "fading brand image" and "market share" to describe the new approach. (See pictures of pioneering women in space.) (See pictures...
...where it will likely land early next year as President-elect Barack Obama takes office. Obama, who has vowed to close Guantánamo, will probably release most of the roughly 225 prisoners held there and find a way to try a select few who are thought to be hard-core al-Qaeda operatives too dangerous to let go. Those freed will probably be returned to their home countries - except for the Uighurs. With no country willing to take them, the incoming Obama Administration will probably have to settle them somewhere in the United States and face China's anger...
...service, taking notes and joining in worship when they're so inclined. Afterward, they pile into the van and head back to campus, where they discuss the experience in the dining hall over sausages and waffles. "We invite them into some critical thinking," says Don, by examining the core tenets of each faith beyond the feel-good trappings that his wife shorthands as "Jesus as Mr. Rogers in sandals." (It's not just Christianity; the VanDyke Colbys are planning an interfaith road trip in the spring...
...meaning. Parents would not only carry UPS boxes but would also help students lug around their dorm rooms, which would be large glass boxes themselves.These are only some of the ultramodern ideas to emerge out of Professor Jonathan Levi’s studio class at the GSD, a core course in the school’s architectural design program. The semester-long project challenged 66 students to address the University’s impending extension into Allston. Specifically, the students grappled with one proposed plan for the expansion that entails building four Houses across the River to replace the three...
...Already, even under the relatively narrow Core, Harvard graduates share little as far as common academic experiences or familiarity with the same body of knowledge and literature that once distinguished those with a university education. The Greek and Roman classics, and the modern canon of “great books” of literature and philosophy, once occupied much of the intellectual experiences of Harvard students—presumably because the study of such works imparted knowledge of the virtues, and made men’s minds “liberal” in the original sense, not slavish...