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Recruiting at Harvard does not streamline unqualified applicants into the college. What it does do, however, is extend admissions’ ability to gather information about prospective students. Through coaches, who have a far better vantage point from which to judge an applicant’s character through commitment, dedication, and work ethic, admissions gains a perspective they could never otherwise achieve. In other words, admissions is better because of recruiting, not worse...
...library staff played an active role in the development of the Baker Exchange, a public space situated in the ground floor lobby of the south side of the building. It is designed to encourage HBS students to gather and discuss real-time developments in the business world. The area has been equipped with 19 daily international newspapers and two banks of four 42-inch plasma screen televisions playing up-to-the-minute financial news. The area also contains Bloomberg Professional terminals, which are commonly used by financial firms to perform market research...
...that is the tree. A group of Sri Lankan monks in golden robes gather and sit down before it. They recite from their prayer books, and their words boom around the temple complex over loudspeakers: "Buddham Sharanam Gacchami"--I go for refuge to the Buddha...
...brick ruins of the monasteries glow incandescently amid the lush green grass. Just beyond the park's walls, a peacock climbs the roof of a Burmese Buddhist monastery to watch the sunset. In the other corner, near a statue of the Buddha preaching to his first five disciples, visitors gather around a monk who starts reciting the master's first sermon. As you listen, it is as if 2,500 years have been rolled back and you are hearing the Buddha himself, talking of why there is so much suffering on earth and what can be done...
...attached to them. The mission is to begin "draining the pond," as U.S. officers call it--clearing civilians from what is about to become a battlefield so that the insurgents could not blend back into the fold. The scenes are heart wrenching: the Kurds burst into houses as families gather for breakfast, ordering them at gunpoint onto the street with only the possessions and provisions they can grab in a few seconds. Women wail, and children cling to their mothers' sides, as they head to temporary camps on the city's fringe. Although explosions can be heard in the distance...