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When Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan ascended to the masthead of the storied Harvard Law Review, she inherited a journal that had gone unpublished for four issues due to the previous year’s dysfunctional student management. As supervising editor, Kagan played a central role in bringing the journal up to speed, sacrificing much of a summer to complete her predecessors’ unfinished issues.Nearly 20 years later, Kagan rose to lead the Law School, another institution plagued by infighting and discontent. Though it had begun to experience a revival, the school still faced major unresolved issues when...
...never stopped fidgeting, and I've always thought I walked out of meetings remembering all the relevant parts. Now I have proof. In a delightful new study, which will be published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, psychologist Jackie Andrade of the University of Plymouth in southern England showed that doodlers actually remember more than nondoodlers when asked to retain tediously delivered information, like, say, during a boring meeting or a lecture. (See the cartoons of the week...
USAGE: "Administration officials say it is impossible to help large groups of borrowers without introducing some degree of what has come to be known as moral hazard." --Wall Street Journal...
...from them - 15 to 20 a year - is relatively small. More people die each year from bee stings. "But we don't remove flowers from schools or playgrounds," Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School, commented recently in the British Medical Journal. When asked about his editorial, which he wrote after his son's school bus had to be evacuated because someone spotted a peanut on board, he said, "We should be having a sober-minded, public-health debate, and instead the overresponse to food allergies is preposterous...
...Does it haunt me? Yes, it does. And I'm not afraid to admit that." - On his handling of the sex-abuse scandal, calling the issue the most challenging of his tenure in Milwaukee Milwaukee Journal Sentinel...