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...study released just last week reveals “a paucity of knowledge among students” when it comes to America’s Founding Principles. Commissioned by the Jack Miller Center for the Teaching of America’s Founding Principles—go figure—the bias-free study proves what so many of us have known for so long: This country’s universities are failing in their most fundamental mission—manufacturing Americans...
...civic illiteracy of Harvard students is an embarrassment to us all. The Jack Miller Center for the Teaching of America’s Founding Principles has spoken, and we would be fools not to listen. Harvard’s first duty is to its country, and its mission is clear; if we’re not educating American citizens, then we’ve lost our raison d’être. (That’s French.) The threat to Harvard’s integrity posted by the influx of internationals must be crushed immediately...
...traditional residents, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT), the Harvard Krokodiloes, and the Radcliffe Pitches, but also will contain rehearsal space for other performance groups. “Harvard has not had a new theater dedicated exclusively to the College in almost 50 years,” said Jack Megan, director of the Office for the Arts (OFA). “The building is a means to an end, not an end in itself. It presents a challenge for a higher standard of programming at Harvard.” The official theater opening on October 17 will be celebrated with...
...seems as though every CEO in America has found his or her Inner Writer. The pioneer was Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca, whose 1984 memoir, Iacocca, was a smash hit with 7 million copies in print. Then came GE CEO Jack Welch, who received $7 million for his 2001 tell-all, Jack: Straight from the Gut. Of course, there are motivations for writing a book besides money: the earnest desire to pass along lessons learned, the urge to settle a few scores, not to mention ego. This month brings three new CEO tomes that span the spectrum of management styles from...
...Krakauer’s book in hand, writer-director Sean Penn forges a story in “Into the Wild” that takes “The Graduate,” slams it into “Siddhartha,” and rolls it all down Jack Kerouac’s road. When you start a Krakauer book—whether it be the Everest adventure “Into Thin Air” or Mormon tragedy “Under the Banner of Heaven”—you realize that you are about to embark...