Word: mason
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...most visible connection between Harvard and Korea is this exchange of scholarship and of scholars. Last spring, Harvard's Mason Fellows a one-year program in public administration for middle-level officials from developing countries directed from HIID, traveled for ten days through Korea to learn from the Korean experience first-hand. Similarly, Harvard's Graduate School of Design announced last spring that a new program aimed at teaching land planning skills to foreign professionals would open with a group of eight executives from the Korea Land Development Corporation...
...Patrick Andrew Mason, a 5-year-old, was shot dead in his home by a Stanton, Cal., officer--who was called by neighbors to check on the child's safety. The child was being left alone in the house for long periods of time (his mother worked evenings). An officer, who says he thought the call was a setup for an ambush, kicked in the door and shot the boy, who was holding a toy pistol. The officer got probation...
...George Mason...
...country interested in establishing a public policy program similar to the K-School's, the Mason program has served as an ideal way to test the water. When a K-School delegation took its fellows on a field trip to Egypt this spring, faculty at the American University of Cairo unexpectedly asked Academic Dean Albert Carnesale for help in setting up a public policy curriculum. This fall, one of those professors will enroll at the K-School as a Mason fellow, Pyle said, adding, "This man's presence in the Mason fellow program will be the takeoff point...
Thomas P. Sellers, associate director of the K-School's Masters in Public Administration program--which supervises the Mason fellows--sums up the rationale behind this approach: "Consulting lasts as long as the product of that consulting and it's difficult to leave behind anything permanent. The advantage of training is that it trains human beings and there's nothing more permanent than a human being...