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...lost an apparently great dean at a time when you don't read a lot about successful university administrators. And, it turns out, she is one who had a personal as well as professional understanding of the stresses of our résumé culture. It would be a useful lesson for M.I.T.'s students if the gatekeeper who gets to award the golden credential of a degree from the world's most prestigious technical institution is someone who lacks that kind of credential. It would say, "Don't let it go to your head. An M.I.T. diploma isn't necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIT Dean Marilee Jones Flunks Out | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...lesson is communication, at the end of the day, that’s the biggest issue that you have to get your hands around... get[ting] the communication out to as many people as possible as often as possible,” said Paul J. Riccardi, dean for administration and operations at the School of Public Health and a member of that school’s Local Emergency Management Team...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Crisis Alert Plan Examined | 4/30/2007 | See Source »

Hobbies can be dangerous. In the new video for indie-rocking Canucks Tokyo Police Club’s “A Lesson in Crime,” a middle-aged man is forced to contend with the often horrific results of his apparently perilous pastime—building miniature train sets...

Author: By Michelle L Cronin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Tokyo Police Club | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...elders held the purse strings. Now, says Degania's manager, "we are still protecting the weak, but everyone has the responsibility of earning their own living." Some naive kibbutzniks, he says, need to be taught how to open a bank account and use an ATM card. Elders learned a lesson in capitalism that any kid with a lemonade stand could have taught them: the individual works harder for himself than for the collective. Factory output has jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of a Zionist Idyll | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

Grey's Anatomy star and disgraced utterer of homophobic slurs Isaiah Washington has manfully withdrawn his name from Emmy consideration. Gossip site DEFAMER is unmoved: "His time in gayhab obviously taught him an important lesson about transparent expressions of publicist-encouraged humility." SCORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 7, 2007 | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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