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...success of an education.” The event was cosponsored by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Standing Committee on Public Service, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), and the Public Service Network. The meeting featured presentations by Lisa Boes, a research officer at the Bok Center, and Annie Riley ’07, a Social Studies concentrator, both of whom emphasized the program’s promise and benefits to students. Boes drew from her May 2006 Graduate School of Education doctoral dissertation, in which she examined...
...Pays to Be Nice I was disgusted by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's "No Jerks Allowed" [April 2]. Her attitude is from the aggressive 1980s. It is ridiculous to claim that there is a correlation between nastiness and giftedness. Some nasty people happen to be gifted, but it is not their nastiness that makes them so; on the contrary, it diminishes their effectiveness and costs their companies in both dollars and goodwill. I would not want to have a Steve Jobs or anyone on my team who "scars" his employees. Warren Buffett and Jimmy Carter, for example, do not find...
...Pays to Be Nice I was disgusted by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's "No Jerks Allowed" [April 2]. Her attitude is from the aggressive 1980s. It is ridiculous to claim that there is a correlation between nastiness and giftedness. Some nasty people happen to be gifted, but it is not their nastiness that makes them so; on the contrary, it diminishes their effectiveness and costs their companies in both dollars and goodwill. I would not want to have a Steve Jobs or anyone on my team who "scars" his employees. Warren Buffett and Jimmy Carter, for example, do not find...
From the opening notes of solo piece “Lisa,” there was no way anyone could forget Palmieri’s presence. “Lisa” traveled many moods, from being smooth and easy to being ultimately choppy, tense, and throbbing with emotion...
...Bullies Get the Boot I was surprised by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's "No Jerks Allowed" [April 2]. Cullen said "beastly bosses have shaved months off my life" and then defended them as being "some of the most gifted people I've known," as if that excuses their behavior. It is people like Cullen who create an atmosphere of acceptance for these cretins. There is no justification for jerks in the workplace. Give me an office full of smiley faces anytime. Suzy Stephens, Hampton Cove, Alabama...