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Current graduate students in the government department report that a general disregard for the intellectual capability of KSG masters’ students—the vast majority of the school’s enrollment—remains at FAS and continues to cause friction at the graduate level...
Matchett used a system called “lashing” to secure the poles. “It’s what sailors use to keep things together. You bind the wood together with rope, then wrap more rope around those bindings. The friction in the ropes keeps anything from slipping. I tell people, ‘Friction keeps me sleeping soundly at night’,” he explains. And the ropes do not budge. When in the “down” position the bed frame itself rests on the wooden structure. But when...
King Fahd, 80, will be remembered in Saudi annals as the great modernizer, a staunch U.S. ally who built hospitals and highways and spent billions upgrading the Saudi armed forces. To minimize friction with Muslim leaders, however, he constantly channeled some of the kingdom's vast oil wealth into religious causes. He carved out a place in Islamic history by supervising a $25 billion expansion of the holy shrines in Mecca and Medina. The King also poured cash into scores of new Islamic universities, which began churning out thousands of fresh religious activists. "But something unexpected happened," notes a former...
...because people don't trust that their bag will end up in the same airport on the same day they do. And airline gate agents rarely challenge the size of anyone's carry-on because they want to get paying passengers on the plane with the least amount of friction. Statistically, lost or delayed bags aren't that large an issue, but the mental anguish of being without your toothbrush or even more intimate items is severe for some passengers...
...long time, then says, "Hmmm." He's most intent on preserving team harmony. He portrays himself as done with ambition: "I don't have any personal need to shine." He says he's a "problem solver," the practical man who knows how to make the system work with minimal friction, the one who carries out the vision, not the one who imagines...