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Indeed, perhaps the Harvard of fifty years ago provides a healthier academic and social model for us to follow. A substantive core curriculum ensured undergraduates learned math and read Shakespeare and Plato. Hyper-competitive students moderated themselves through a custom that shunned egoistic ambition. Grade inflation hardly existed, for earning...
37signals isn't shy about dispensing one thing without charge: advice to small-business owners. On the company blog, Signal vs. Noise, Fried shares what he's learned about the art of streamlined teamwork with more than 65,000 readers. First, kill all your meetings; they waste employees' time. "Interruption...
"Life, as I see it, is R-rated," Rogen says. Then he giggles. It's so R-rated that Knocked Up--despite scenes depicting childbirth from health-class angles--is a muted version of Rogen's shtick. "We said, 'The dude gets married? That's kind of lame,'" says writing...
Meanwhile Hosseini was growing up in Californian splendor. He learned English, went to high school and college, became a doctor. Audiences at Hosseini's readings are sometimes surprised at how American he looks. He's clean-shaven and handsome--at 42 he bears a passing resemblance to Antonio Banderas. He...
Lamont friends are beautiful but Lamont enemies can get ugly. Students spend marathon hours in the library cramming for finals, only to have their golden study moments soured by the antics of “That Kid.” The one who never learned proper library etiquette. Here are...