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...professors; but I learned as much listening to the guest speakers that come through various organizations, such as the Institute of Politics, the Radcliffe Institute and The Crimson. The most memorable lecture of my freshman year came not from a professor, but from Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Eileen McNamara, who spoke at a Radcliffe Institute dinner...
...spear on what may be the most ambitious business effort in the 231-year history of the U.S. Army: an attempt to adopt a management theory, Lean Six Sigma, across the entire service. More comprehensive than the attempt in the 1960s by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to introduce the highly quantitative "system analysis" to the Pentagon, this is an enormous experiment: the Army has an annual budget of $160 billion, with 1.1 million men and women in uniform, and it employs an additional 230,000 civilians. "This is the largest deployment of management science since the beginning of the discipline...
...completely agree that “listening and engaging in productive debate” with someone who holds different political views from one’s own is a very useful activity. However, I do not believe that allowing Robert McNamara to speak in 1966 or John McCain just last week would provide such an experience...
...only become clearer with the passing years, the administrations that conducted the Vietnam War systematically lied about what our military was truly doing in Southeast Asia. Would listening to McNamara lie once more contribute to anything productive? Does anyone really believe that President Bush or any administration official ever publicly says anything worthwhile about the war in Iraq? The same goes for John McCain. As he panders more and more to the evangelical right and other demographics that he hasn’t relied on for votes in the past, his words quickly become devoid of any honesty. If Donald...
...November 1966, the Harvard-Radcliffe branch of the Students for a Democratic Society staged a protest against visiting Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, who was speaking at Harvard on the Vietnam War (and who had, to be fair, declined to debate an editor of a liberal magazine while at Harvard). What ensued was a “physical confrontation” just short of a riot, in which the embattled McNamara fled in his car through angry crowds on his way out of Cambridge. It was an event that prompted one Crimson reader to remark, in a letter...