Word: foreign
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...Harvard's way is the way you'd learn a foreign language if you were just thrown into the streets of Paris--it's like Berlitz," says Roman L. Weil, professor of accounting and director of the Institute of Professional Accounting at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. "I don't teach Berlitz. It's not merely how to get along. We want to go deeper than that--we want our people to be leaders in their profession...
...ethics cases I've seen were mine," says Ciulla. "We need more ethics cases, and we need them on women, and we need them on Blacks. There are also no international cases worth anything." When Ciulla needs cases on international business, she says, she writes them with her foreign students...
THERE are very few people in the world who know as much as J. William Fulbright about United States foreign policy. The outspoken Arkansas Democrat served in the Senate from 1945 to 1974, holding the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his last 16 years, longer than any other senator in history. He also developed the educational exchange program that bears his name and, as a freshman member of the House, sponsored a war-time resolution that supported America's entrance into the United Nations...
Fulbright's dissenting views about U.S. interventions have irked some policymakers in the past, but, more importantly, they have led to a creative understanding of the United States' role in the world. So when the former senator reflects on the current state of U.S. foreign policy in his new book, he is able to draw on a wealth of knowledge and experience. Littered with anecdotes, The Price of Empire is a series of enlightening reflections on the key points and trends in U.S. foreign policy since the Second World...
Writer of Letitia Baldrige's Complete Guide to Executive Manners, she said that former President John F. Kennedy '40 taught her a lesson in government etiquette. When she brought a gift from a foreign official of a vicuna coat to Kennedy, the president insisted that she return the coat immediately, Baldrige said...