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...help to reduce the potential for athletes to develop a sense of entitlement that comes with celebrity status. In an odd way, Harvard students’ general apathy toward our sports teams helps to avoid situations like the one currently plaguing Duke.The Duke situation is further exacerbated by all manner of race, class, and geographical issues. Durham has a very hostile relationship toward the university. Durham, the North Carolina home to Duke, is a diverse town with significant levels of poverty, further reinforcing the divide between privileged students and regular townspeople. Wealthier Cambridge, diverse though it may be, is much...
...seemed to me he personified the good traits that I associated with ‘Mainiacs’—directness, no nonsense,” said colleague and close friend Charles M. Williams. “And unlike the prototype, he had a gentleness of manner,” Williams, the Gund professor emeritus of finance and banking, said. Thurston was named the Chapman professor of business administration in 1979. From 1978 to 1981, he also served as a head of production and operations management for HBS. In the last decade of his career, Thurston joined the Executive...
...continue to use its tried-and-true method of sending admissions decisions by letter in addition to e-mail. The College admissions website even warns applicants that about 2 percent of e-mails will be undeliverable because of reasons such as expired accounts or mailbox filters. Regardless of the manner of delivery, “we will stand by the decision that the committee voted for,” said the College’s admissions director, Marlyn McGrath Lewis...
...have a sense of pride because [founder] Mark Zuckerberg represented us in a respectable manner,” said Robert J. Ross ’09. Ross said that if the site changes ownership, “I don’t think that would prevent people already on Facebook from using...
...style. Merkel appears to prefer working behind the scenes to basking in the limelight. She has brought a collegial atmosphere to the Chancellery that is proving wildly popular. "Suddenly a woman in black enters the stage without any pomp or circumstance and talks in a quite straightforward manner - analytically," says Gerd Langguth, a political scientist at Bonn University. "People like that." Cabinet meetings are more open and less hierarchical than they were in Schröder's day, though Merkel can be ruthless with long-winded colleagues. "When I met her alone it was like meeting a leading business figure...