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...officers of the Harvard chapter notified 96 seniors of their eligibility for induction in mid-October. The initial group was chosen based on grades, difficulty of class work, and intellectual experience, according to chapter president and Leverett House Master Howard Georgi...

Author: By Emma R. Carron, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Accepts 48 | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...tangible change. In addition to renovated house kitchens, he believes there’s a need for a formalized food studies program on campus with courses that explore the culinary arts academically and practically. THE LIBERAL CULINARY ARTSA few food studies programs already exist around the world, including a Master of Liberal Arts in Gastronomy at Boston University and an undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate program in Food Studies at NYU. Though Harvard does not have a formalized food studies program, students can study food laterally through various departments, from Anthropology to Human and Evolutionary Biology. Francesca T. Gilberti...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cooking the Books | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...Three Blew It Of all Detroit's failures - the failure to master small cars, failure to cut costs, failure to get tough with the UAW, failure to improve fuel efficiency - the failure to learn, says MacDuffie, is perhaps its worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Detroit's Last Winter? | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...obviously complicit in the industry's deterioration, just as it was guilty of creating an unparalleled manufacturing system decades earlier. The Detroit approach has been plan-command-control, stemming from that original control freak, Henry Ford. At GM, a management hierarchy that had been created by GM's master planner, Alfred P. Sloan, in the '20s - GM's first and most successful restructuring - was still functioning in the '80s. Management's job was to create the products, design the production system and provide solutions if there were problems. Everyone else followed orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Detroit's Last Winter? | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...River" as he darns his socks. Much of his mischief and provokingness he got from his Caribbean origins, he acknowledges; and to see the calypso Naipaul before he began taking snuff from a silver spoon is to see a much more human and endearing figure than the master usually admits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V.S. Naipaul's Other Life | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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