Word: ideas
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That said, however, we urge the Ad Board to publish detailed descriptions of its cases each year without attaching names to them, an idea former Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said he would support. The User's Guide to the Ad Board already offers examples of possible cases and decisions, but students would be far better served by the honest disclosure of many actual cases. They would then know what punishment they would face for particular transgressions and, more importantly, be able to debate the Ad Board's decisions rather than helplessly standing by while a mysterious...
...They're cheaper, they're faster, they're simpler. Forget that they are made up of the kind of people willing to make 50 bucks by sitting for a couple of hours in a stifling room drinking burned coffee; politicians are slavishly devoted to them. Dole got his cockeyed idea that people would rather leave their children with him than with Bill Clinton from a focus group. But the user addicted to the practice is Clinton (a la Morris), who tested every subject save whether a switch from a Big Mac to an Arch Deluxe would attract your more mature...
...contrast, several rigorous evaluations have shown Life Skills to reduce the rate of teen drug use. Designed to combat teen smoking, it is a series of role-playing and problem-solving exercises with not even a mention of marijuana until lesson No. 3. "The idea is to present drug resistance in a large context of social skills kids need to navigate the minefield of adolescence," says Gilbert Botvin, director of Cornell University's Institute for Prevention Research, who developed Life Skills based on behavioral data about teens...
...outraged concern of economic moralists and the titillated attention of the media, ever eager to gossip about the rich and infamous. Think Donald Trump or Bill Gates, or some heroically glamorized combination of the two--after all, Mel Gibson plays Tom in Ransom--and you've got the good idea animating this movie...
Several years ago, after hearing Joseph Brodsky, then the poet laureate of the U.S., say poetry should be more broadly available in this country, Carroll was inspired to found an organization called the American Poetry & Literacy Project. The idea was to get relatively light and accessible poetry into the hands of ordinary Americans. Carroll's own wait at a vehicle-inspection station apparently convinced him that he had found a place where people are so hungry for distraction that they would welcome a copy of Paradise Lost, even if it came accompanied by the possibility of an unannounced quiz...