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While the staff may gripe about their own dreams to continue their studies at HLS, a smaller and more responsive law school will ultimately do Harvard proud--students and faculty alike...
Some teachers, who resent any challenge to their autonomy, gripe that structured curriculums merely supply rote facts while stifling creativity among teachers and students alike. "The only teaching this does is to make kids cough up answers on command," says Alfie Kohn, author of The Schools Our Children Deserve. Adds Linda McNeil, a professor of education at Rice University: "They'll drive out the best teachers and give the weakest a place to hide...
...employee, Omidyar soon found himself thrust into a new and unwanted role: grievance officer. Buyers and sellers with complaints about each other were e-mailing him personally and asking him to step in. Omidyar urged them to work things out amicably between themselves. But if eBayers really had to gripe, he decided, they should do it publicly on the site. "I wanted to reinforce the notion that if you're going to bring a complaint about someone, do it out in the open," says Omidyar. "You can't come running to Daddy." He had one other proviso: if traders...
...with a Founder's Letter in February 1996 in which he laid out a philosophy that still guides eBay: that people are basically good, that they make mistakes, and that they should be given the benefit of the doubt. "I was afraid it would turn into just a gripe forum, but as I watched it develop, I was amazed to realize that people enjoy giving praise." In fact the feedback eBayers posted about one another was overwhelmingly positive...
Maybe it's the name. If you call yourself the World Trade Organization, you can't complain much if people dial your 800 number and gripe about world trade. If a bunch of heads of government plan a triumphalist self-celebration in Seattle, you can't blame party poopers for showing up to horn in on the publicity. But really, the WTO is O.K. Do the math. Or take it on faith...