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...think what makes Quincy Assassins so successful is the fact that everyone's willing to put 100 percent into it,” said Yang. “A lot of students see the long list of rules as a giant opportunity to think outside...
...myriad community service programs. Others volunteer and serve in less formal but equally meaningful ways. Community outreach and service, though, is something that all, and not just most, students should play a part in. The next time you get an email from your House e-mail list promoting a community outreach and service event, give it some actual thought before routinely purging it from your inbox. Choose to volunteer on a shift with the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, go on a building day with Habitat for Humanity, or help distribute meals to impoverished Cambridge families. These are just some...
...tend to assume that kids (and adults) know how to achieve success. If they don't get there, it's for lack of effort - or talent. Sometimes that's true. But a lot of the time, people are just flying blind. John List, an economist at the University of Chicago, has noticed the disconnect in his own education experiments. He explains the problem to me this way: "I could ask you to solve a third-order linear partial differential equation," he says. "A what?" I ask. "A third-order linear partial differential equation," he says. "I could offer...
...China has centuries of native strategic culture that, overlaid with the neuralgia of Marxism, shapes its thinking. Calls for China to be a responsible stakeholder have failed not least because China is ambivalent about the international system as it's currently construed. Even if we could solve the laundry list of perplexities we confront - trade, currency, Tibet, Taiwan - the main problem would linger. So only a solution that functions at the strategic level offers any hope of a durable arrangement. (See five things the U.S. can learn from China...
...Jintao had an hour-long phone conversation last week, after which the Chinese President agreed to attend a nuclear summit in Washington. And on the volatile issue of trade, a grand bargain of sorts now appears to be taking shape: In return for delaying a decision on whether to list China as a "currency manipulator" - long a dream of protectionists in Congress - China is sending signals that it will soon allow its currency, the renminbi, to appreciate. "The Chinese know very well it's in their own interest to allow the RMB to rise a bit," a source close...