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Crazy as it sounds, there’s something comforting in this. It is perhaps a testament to four years at Harvard that I enjoy sitting in empty studios early in the morning listening to nothing but the sound of my own voice, but I like to think that there’s something more to this masochistic urge to wander the streets of Cambridge at ungodly hours, carrying bags full of records I will play for an unknown and unresponsive audience. As I listen to the hollow sounds of people clapping at John Coltrane concerts...
...James Levitt, the director of the program on conservation innovation at Harvard Forest, dozens of executives from groups like the National Wildlife Federation and the Nature Conservancy, along with a few representatives from the government, tried to work out a new framework for the biggest challenge facing conservation. (Listen to Levitt talk about adaptive management on this week's Greencast...
...didn’t feel personally in danger at that moment,” said Block, recalling the episode. “People have said when they listen to me narrate what’s going on that I sounded remarkably calm and maybe I was in shock, or maybe it was just because I hadn’t seen buildings falling down around...
...civil rights movement as well as the importance of playing by the rules. Suddenly it dawned on the Hillary Clinton supporters in the audience that the committee was not going to go their way. "I was incredibly proud to come down here as a student on the mall and listen to Dr. Martin Luther King talk about civil rights," said Germond, as the crowd simultaneously began to hiss, cheer and shush, her voice being drowned out by the roar. "We are not the current administration who plays lose with rules," Germond continued, her voice rising a little desperately to dampen...
Rescorla felt it was foolish to rely on first responders to save his employees. His company was the largest tenant in the Trade Center, a village nestled in the clouds. Morgan Stanley's employees would need to take care of one another. He ordered them not to listen to any instructions from the Port Authority in a real emergency. In his eyes, it had lost all legitimacy after it failed to respond to his 1990 warnings. And so Rescorla started running the entire company through his own frequent, surprise fire drills. He trained employees to meet in the hallway between...