Word: mason
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this reason, the Mason program at the K-School, which draws 50 Third World leaders each year, is flourishing in its 25th year. The Business School's International Teachers program is also thriving. Although less than 10 percent of the Mason fellows come from a strictly academic background, a substantial number of the program graduates become a channel of academic export upon returning to their home countries, says Nancy Pyle, director of the program. In developing countries, governments maintain closer links with universities, frequently asking former ministers to teach, Pyle notes. In addition, the contacts the fellows make with...
Pyle said that some Mason fellows are so impressed with what they have learned about management that they want to import their favorite courses lock, stock, and travel. One farmer minister in the Burmess government upon returning home from his year as a Mason fellow persuaded his government to establish a K-School courses on microeconomics as part of the curriculum at the University of Rangoon. He wired the Kennedy School and asked for the entire course packet to be sent special delivery...
Like most of his buddies, Mason had believed that all Asians were unworthy of U.S. salvation. But in a smoldering village, he began to understand the hubris of Western technology. Of an ancient water wheel, he writes: it was "as efficient as any device our engineers could produce. The knowledge that built it was being systematically destroyed...
...were Mason's countrymen. As the fighting intensified, his Huey was frequently an ambulance, and too often a hearse stacked with corpses. "The smell of death seeped out of the zippered pouches and made the living retch," he writes. "No matter how fast I flew, the smell would not blow away." Mason suffered from insomnia, blackouts and nightmares about dying children. He let mosquitoes bite him because malaria was a fail-safe ticket home. When he witnessed two Marines being blown up by a claymore mine they were setting, he reflected, "What's next in this carnival...
Agonizingly suspended between his fear of death and his passion for duty, the "chickenhawk" took the conflicts home. When a clerk in Hawaii called him a murderer, he felt that she was talking about someone else. Daily quarts of whisky could not erase the awful memories and their replays. Mason lived in a private, disconnected world that finally crashed in 1981 when he was arrested for and convicted of dope smuggling. "No one [was] more shocked than I," he recalls. Chickenhawk, with its vertical plunge into the thickets of madness, will stun readers as well...