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...Task Force on Teaching and Career Development acknowledges what students have been saying for years: Harvard has a pedagogy problem. The 86-page report recommends 18 concrete and sensible strategies for the improvement of teaching at Harvard, but if the report is to make more than a mere dent, its proposals must be brought to fruition. We hope that the Faculty, the new president, and the new dean of the Faculty will fast-track the implementation of pedagogical reforms proposed by the Task Force rather than leaving the report to collect dust next to similar reports that have preceded it.The...
...anything done as long as you don’t insist upon credit for the accomplishment. There is wisdom here and not the kind usually found in those books on business leadership that proliferate in airport bookstalls. A wimp or a wuss will not do, and mere popularity and likeability are thin gruel for an effective presidency. Intellectual passion moral vision, and the ability to recognize and support excellence in other are among the qualities to be most desired in a president of Harvard. A becoming modesty and a sense of humor, if not irony, also will not go amiss...
...surrounding him...was hampering his ability to be effective in his current position"). The Grey's Anatomy actor, Isaiah Washington, chose the therapeutic option. He can't "defend nor explain" what he said, "there are issues I obviously need to examine within my own soul," he knows that "a mere apology" won't "end this," and so on and on. "Can I stop now?" you can almost hear him pleading to ABC, his employer. "No!" they reply with a crack of the whip. "More groveling! Get sorrier!" Big companies functioning as gaffe cops is one of the disturbing aspects...
...Francisco Giants may no longer be willing to write controversial slugger Barry Bonds a virtual blank check for chasing the home-run record, but that doesn't mean they'll try - or be able - to stop him from cashing his mere $15.8 million paycheck this year...
...Thaksin may claim to be basking in life apr?s coup. But his mere shadow-even an ostensibly retired one-is enough to cause jitters among Thailand's ruling junta. Thaksin presided over a deeply divided nation. Even as the citified middle class rallied for months to dislodge him from office, rural masses clung to a leader whose populist policies were seen as evidence of his devotion to the poor. If general elections were held today, Thaksin might very well win, courtesy of a silent majority rising up from their paddies and mountain villages. Just ask rice farmer Mukda Phardthaisong...