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...shake up the Army now, in the midst of a difficult war? The U.S. defense budget has increased some 40% since 2001, to almost half a trillion dollars, but military experts expect the funding to slow. Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey, who signed the order last March to implement the effort, says the need for it is obvious: "We need to free up resources so we can apply them to the operating side of the Army. We need to equip our soldiers better and faster." Optimistic projections claim the Army could be saving billions of dollars each year...
Today on the bookshelves of nearly every Army office in the Pentagon, alongside military-history tomes, sits a stack of business books that try to decipher what Lean Six Sigma means. Harvey, the spiritual godfather of the Army's transformation, tries to cut through the jargon. "We used to call it 'quality and productivity improvement' or 'total quality management,'" says Harvey, who worked for Westinghouse for nearly three decades. "The bottom line is, you take the extra steps out of the system, and improvement should be ongoing and forever...
Like thousands of other Europeans from chillier climes, Ray and Anne Harvey have seen their relationship with Spain ripen since they first came to visit in 1975. "Back then we did the full tourist thing, including a day trip to Morocco; we caught food poisoning and went home laden with straw donkeys, enormous sombreros and a couple of Moroccan vases," says Ray, 61. "I blush now when I think what we must have looked like." But they liked it, and they kept coming back. In the late 1980s they bought a holiday apartment for around...
...manly man is back. Some data points: Harvard prof Harvey Mansfield's highbrow Manliness cites Achilles to, yes, Margaret Thatcher for such qualities as honor, bravery, pigheadedness. Meanwhile, monobrowed blogger Maddox's best seller Alphabet of Manliness high-fives hot sauce, Chuck Norris, chainsaws. Here, more evidence it's reigning...
...people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.” In 1994, the late psychology professor Richard J. Herrnstein argued in “The Bell Curve” that African-Americans and Hispanics are inherently less intelligent than whites. In 2001, government professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 speculated that the presence of black students was the cause of grade inflation at Harvard, and in 2002 law professor Alan M. Dershowitz conditionally endorsed torture by the Israeli and U.S. governments. Those who detect laziness and complacency in the Harvard Faculty willfully ignore the rigor...