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"There was a discomfort in crossing cultures,"says Morse, who is white.
In John Finley's humanities class, we learnedabout ancient Athens and the promise and perils ofdemocracy. We looked at ancient Greece and saw thechoice facing America: Will we be land-locked,walled, authoritarian Sparta, or theoutward-looking, democratic Athens? Can we havethe courage to be an open society, challenged andstrengthened...
Gregory Nagy, Jones professor of classicalGreek literature, called the study of foreignlanguage "a jewel in the crown" of the Harvardeducation. He praised graduates of the College as"cultivated" people and partly attributed this totheir familiarity with foreign cultures.
If there are doubts about the rightness of the fit, they center on the issue of the two corporate cultures. Chrysler's near-death experience has turned the company into a lean, profit-obsessed organization--short on bureaucracy but long on management talent. In the great Detroit tradition, pragmatism and...
"I really believe that people are the best at teaching the things that they're working on and are interested in," says Eck, who has also taught a Foreign Cultures course on the sources of Indian civilization. "It's probably a mistake to say that you're going to finish...