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While Harvard students can stay holed up in their dorms and watch lectures online, the cold appears to have had a greater effect on people whose jobs depend on foot traffic in the Square...
...happy accomplishment. My persistent efforts to maintain sanity had a measure of success. But there were still moments when I was so burdened with hunger and misery that I was tempted to let go my tenuous grip on the lifeline of survival. At those times, I had to depend on conflict with the guards to stimulate my fighting spirit. ''How long do I have to wait for the government to investigate my case?'' I would shout at one of them. ''It's illegal to lock up an innocent person in prison. It's against Chairman Mao's teachings.'' ''Hush...
...from students is below them because they are “more wise.” Regular evaluations should form the cornerstone of improved teaching. But diagnosing a problem is quite different from curing one. The implementation of most of the Task Force’s recommendations will inevitably depend on the goodwill and focus of the Faculty, which has yet to fulfill such lofty expectations in other areas of undergraduate education. Officially, there is almost no way to ensure that professors audit each other’s classes or that teaching evaluations be given more weight in highly secretive...
...these things, but it will do them no harm to hear them again. Our future is in the hands of six electors whose choice must be confirmed by the Board of Overseers. If we are to have confidence in a choice in which we have no vote, we must depend upon the Governing Boards to get it right. This means most especially that the Overseers must do more than apply their customary rubber stamp. They above all must remember that they have a moral duty to assay the intangible qualities essential to an effective presidency. Pro forma consent contributes...
...stock by publicly bashing the company's management." Other observers were appalled at the buyout. GM officials got rid of Perot, contended Mary Anne Devanna, director of research at the Columbia Business School Management Institute, "to protect their own hides. Their careers, big bonuses and fancy perks all depend on maintaining the status quo. GM is in trouble, and sooner or later it will have to find a Ross Perot to dig itself out of its problems." Keith Grain, publisher of the weekly Automotive News, seemed disappointed at the turn of events. Said...