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...history and students would tell me in their senior year that they knew few faculty well, they would often admit that they had avoided small courses and had rarely made the effort to meet their professors in office hours, to invite them to a house dinner, and so forth,” she wrote in an e-mail. “We all need to work together to create a culture that encourages face-to-face intellectual interaction rather than mutual admiration from afar...
With passion, he sets forth instructions for an executive or employee trying to get ahead or even just survive. He didn't invent these precepts; Dale Carnegie, the granddaddy of self-improvement, sold more than 30 million copies of his 1936 classic, How to Win Friends and Influence People, by advocating similar behavior. But Sanders' book is a pleasing restatement of some basic principles. People who find these truths to be self-evident are likely to be the ones who need them least. "Men are the worst at this," Sanders reports. "They won't smile...
...hoped, Schwarzenegger is going to war against the special interests-especially the public employees' unions-that dominate the Democratic majority in the statehouse. "You see the protesters out there," he said at a press conference in Fresno last week. "They are not just people, teachers and nurses and so forth. They are organized special interests. They follow me everywhere with their protests, and I think that works to our advantage, because the people see what we're fighting against...
...week ago produced two votes of “no confidence”—or a “little confidence” or “some confidence but not a lot”—in Summers’ leadership. A poll put forth by the Graduate School Council, which closes this afternoon, purports to do the same for students of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) using the same questions asked in the FAS measures. But when the votes are tallied, what will we have learned? Unfortunately, not much. The unscientific nature...
...final game of the weekend pitted fourth-seeded Dartmouth against fifth-seeded Wisconsin. The contest went back and forth until the Big Green’s Katie Weatherston registered her second goal of the game 15 minutes into the third period. Dartmouth held on from there to take the quarterfinal contest...