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...percentage of M.B.A.s going straight into the nonprofit sector remains in the single digits--after all, student loans are much easier to pay off with a for-profit salary. And, says Greg Dees, faculty director of Duke University's Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, "many students, if they heard 'nonprofit management,' would be thinking about running a museum, a hospital. That's not what excites them. What excites them is finding innovative entrepreneurial solutions to social problems...
...ancient and honorable political strategy: if you are clever, you can upend your opponent by leveraging the force of his own assertions. But these are not clever times in Washington. The President has taken to the manic repetition of the word victory, apparently on the advice of a Duke University professor, Peter Feaver, a new addition to the National Security Council staff. Feaver conducted a cold-blooded review of recent polling and concluded that the American public would be more tolerant of the carnage if victory, whatever that means, were the likely result. And so Bush gave a speech...
...Congress wants to carve out an exemption from antidiscrimination policies and require the universities to give special preference to certain recruiters, it ought to have to say so in the law,” Dellinger, who is now a professor of law at Duke, said in a phone interview from Chapel Hill, N.C., yesterday...
...breed of jazzman. Few choose to specialize in the clarinet. Few modern jazz artists are unafraid to be explicitly political; Byron routinely gives his compositions titles like “(The press made) Rodney King (responsible for the LA riots).” Fewer still cite influences ranging from Duke Ellington and klezmer legend Mickey Katz to rap label Sugar Hill Records and the Afro-Cuban rhythmic tradition. “These are all types of music that I’ve always been interested in,” he says. “It’s great that...
...slow in coming. Plans for a Stilgoe-led Core curriculum course to treat these topics have been indefinitely postponed due to a lack of qualified graduate students TFs. Professor Stilgoe does believe Harvard is beginning to recognize the importance of Environmental Studies, however belatedly: “Now that Duke and Stanford are developing strong programs in fields similar to mine, Harvard has gotten the idea that this stuff if important. They’re pouring resources into the department now. I just hope they understand what I need isn’t more equipment, but qualified teachers...