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...point system is founded in the logic that race can be quantified, which it cannot, and the system’s advent into our nation’s colleges has been marked by outright discrimination. Rather than ask what an individual student’s ethnicity will contribute to campus—as the Harvard and the University of Michigan Law School systems do—it merely assigns points based on the color of a person’s skin...
...with respect to the proposed location of the dance space, the underutilization of the QRAC’s weights and cardiovascular equipment is simply not germane. Teeming with flawed logic, the administration’s argument also ignores that the QRAC area most heavily utilized by students—the basketball courts—is the area that will be reduced by the renovation...
...side of this chasm are companies stuck in an inwardly-focused business logic that emphasizes concentration, command/control, cost and efficiency. It was invented a century ago to mass manufacture goods for mass consumers with very different needs from people today. This approach, known as “managerial capitalism,” was enormously successful for decades, raising the standard of living for many. But its very success produced a new “society of individuals,” people like you and me who experience themselves as unique actors and not as passive members of a mass audience...
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...nosed approach to profitability can make the NBC Universal combination a success. It particularly hopes to leverage Universal's rich film library and successful TV production operations (see chart). Vivendi's future, on the other hand, is far from certain. "Vivendi remains a mixture of assets with little industrial logic," says Steve Liechti, an analyst at Merrill Lynch in London, echoing a common view among Vivendi watchers at big banks. True, the nbc merger is a key step in Fourtou's campaign to stabilize Vivendi and slash its debt, which totaled €35 billion when he joined the company...