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...look for big gains for Ford, much less General Motors or Chrysler, despite their attempts to woo buyers with special incentive programs. This has all the makings of an Asian-only battle, and Toyota can only stand by and watch as its buyers defect to its Japanese and Korean rivals, with Honda at the head of the pack...
...doctor, upon breaking the news, easily rattles off a list of other famous and brilliant people who also suffered from a combination of alcohol and mental disorders, including Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Cole Porter, Yves St. Laurent, and Vivien Leigh. Add these names to a more general list of brilliant people with mental disorders, including Winston Churchill, Virginia Woolf, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Isaac Newton, and one starts to get the sense that one has to be insane in order to truly accomplish anything great...
...collapse of Enron should have been a trigger to those involved in business in America, the American government, and the American populace that there ought to be fundamental changes in the general practices of American industries, such as how liabilities and assets are calculated. It wasn’t—and those who have benefited from the Enron-led train of unscrupulous practices of the market—such as short-selling, betting against the market or hoping it will fail so that you can make money selling for high to buy at very low. or profiting from...
...other Harvard is the New Harvard. The New Harvard hopes to achieve unified schedules that make cross-registration between the College and graduateschools easy, to host J-term on campus, and to initiate a more relevant General Education program. The New Harvard aims to enrich the overall experience of the diverse group of undergraduates it recruits through a remarkable financial aid program...
...identity, and its undergraduates are suffering as a result. What the Harvard administration should learn from these growing pains is that progressing slowly—as they did in the Old Harvard—does have long-term negative effects. The slow shift from the Core Curriculum to the General Education program, the renovations of the Houses and Allston, and the failed implementation of J-term are all evidence of this fact. To improve the undergraduate experience in the future, Harvard must accelerate these sorts of initiatives...