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...only the messenger of bad news, gave no explanation for the tax, and at the time that this editorial went to press we are unaware of any student group that has received any explanation from any branch of the University. For students groups, the uncertainty associated with the new diktat can be paralyzing. Many student groups depend heavily on gift account contributions for their source of funding. The Harvard College in Asia Project (HCAP), for example, derives 35 percent of its budget from donations to its gift account. Without transparency and clarity, they cannot adjust their spending plans and fundraising...
...directive appears on the second line of the highly circulated list of core values, pithy mantras that trip off the tongues of the company's 40,000 devoted employees. The five-item diktat begins, "We sell the highest quality natural and organic products available. We satisfy and delight our customers...
...other words, China's growing urgency to buy overseas assets (recent high-profile deals include Beijing-based computer maker Lenovo's purchase of IBM's PC business) in some cases may owe as much to government diktat as it does to sound business strategy. Managers of state-owned enterprises, in particular, answer first to Beijing for reasons that may have little to do with profit and loss. During the first 11 months of 2004, Chinese companies invested $1.8 billion abroad; 90% was by state firms...
Surowiecki's thesis posits an uncanny and generally unconscious collective intelligence working not by top-down diktat but rather in dynamic arrangements of what the economist Friedrich Hayek called "spontaneous order." Surowiecki cites the giant flock of starlings evading a predatory hawk. From the outside, the cloud of birds seems to move in obedience to one mind. In fact, Surowiecki writes, each starling is acting on its own, following four simple rules: "1) stay as close to the middle as possible; 2) stay 2 to 3 body lengths away from your neighbor; 3) do not bump into any other starling...
...Wilhelm Rudolph, who wandered among the ruins with notepad in hand. Then there is a collection of formalist drawings and paintings with winding lines and bursts of color, not only surprising because of their contrast to Rudolph's work, but also because they defied the Communist Party's diktat against abstraction. Arbeitspause (Break from Work), from 1959, an early painting by the controversial Willi Sitte, typifies the work of a group of artists that emerged in Halle and Berlin and used elements of Cubism and Expressionism. Sitte's construction worker sits cross-legged on a steel beam reading a book...