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...difference between those who use their skills in business and those who use them in the pursuit of social goals. More and more people agree. As economic, social and political pressures blur the boundaries between the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds, a new breed of do-gooder is emerging, one that uses techniques and tools honed in the workplace to tackle social problems. In most cases, they start small. But taken together, they are changing the way nonprofit enterprises are conceived and run and bringing a new dynamism and drive to the business of doing good...
...could it have failed? With a smugness that smothers the actors' energy and obliterates the historical reality. Welles is a pompous oaf, and Houseman his toady. The rich are scheming, the poor artists cliches of do-gooder striving. These are caricatures drawn so violently that one sees blotches of ink instead of quick, deft lines. Perhaps, in the long view, we are all idiots. But we don't need a 60-year perspective to see Robbins' attitude revealed in all its meanness of spirit. If he hated these people so, why did he waste his time and ours putting them...
...curricular. Editors and writers for publications sometimes spend twelve hours a day working for their papers. The Institute of Politics and Harvard Student Agencies demand a fair number of weekly hours as well. And the average dramaturg devotes two hours daily to a theatrical production. The typical Harvard do-gooder however, rarely devotes more than one afternoon a week to social service...
...this idea that community service is the exclusive realm of the 'do-gooder' that diminishes its prestige in student's minds. While few undergraduates intend to totally dedicate themselves to social service, almost all of students want to contribute the world in a positive way. Whether by reforming campaign finance or providing more efficient financial service than J.P Morgan, everyone hopes to find a place in the real world where their talents are useful to society. We are all 'do-gooders' in the end. The bustle of the Career Forum just makes us forget that...
...memoir and then putting 14 of Salinger's love letters on the auction block. Peter Norton, a Silicon Valley tycoon, bought the letters last week for $156,000 and announced that he was going to return them to Salinger. For this, Norton has been hailed a noble do-gooder, although I think he's a bit of a killjoy, using his money to quash a nice little scandal right at the beginning of summer...