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...feel like Harvard has...more experienced negotiators and was able to manipulate the political situation very effectively,” Wysoker says. “Had we been able to be as sophisticated a negotiating team as Harvard was, we might have gotten more...
...things stand, however, Harvard itself seems—to me, at least—to have gotten the balance more or less right. Consequently, students here have the wonderful opportunity to make what they want of college. Everyone is forced to crack their books—and to crack them seriously. Indeed, many students choose to make academics the focus of their college careers. Many others, though, pour much of their energy into activities as diverse as athletics, acting, student government or, dare I say it, journalism. To suggest that all those students would have been better served by spending...
...Obviously if we could have gotten somebody who would actually have taken the full dean title it would have been good, but you know maybe this is not a bad way of experimenting,” he said. “Right now, it’s very good that he’s going to do it—it provides some stability...
...alarm--and shame--is justified and long overdue, the manners gurus say. "We're reaping what we've been sowing for the past 20 to 30 years," says Corinne Gregory, founder of the PoliteChild. "Society has gotten increasingly callous and me-centered, and we're fed up with [the results]." Her firm, based in Woodinville, Wash., began in 2001 as an after-school program and is now a national enterprise with 2,000 alumni. Gregory's pupils are taught to mind their p's and q's and remember their three c's: caring, compassion and consideration...
...your hometown in Illinois. Are you like the main character? In some ways. He's very much of a Midwesterner, a wanderer, self-deprecating, somewhat naive. I was naive when I first went to New York. It opened me to experiences and knowledge that I wouldn't have gotten if I'd been worldly...