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...came to understand Rayleigh scattering, and it continues to exist today, not in the least undermined by our advance in scientific understanding. The religious explanation has been supplemented--but not supplanted--by advances in scientific knowledge. We now may, if we care to, think of Rayleigh scattering as the method God has chosen to implement his color scheme...
...book “Democracy Matters”, widely dismissed by critics as lacking in substance, is a pointed defense of his way of academia. With an entire chapter devoted to explaining “The Necessary Engagement with Youth Culture,” West characterizes his method as a struggle against “technocratic management culture”—a conceptual enemy he equates with “crude” traditionalists like Summers...
...that binds the movie’s varied elements into an affecting piece of cinema. Walt’s development as a character is the driving narrative force, and his confusion, frustration, and ultimate resignation comprise the bulk of the film’s substance. Eisenberg’s method is a study in minimalism: he possesses the uncanny ability to make a seemingly blank expression convey great depths of emotion. In the movie’s closing minutes, Walt and his father share a heart-to-heart in a hospital room: Eisenberg communicates Walt’s shift from...
...picking of Lynch's heyday. "We have a very different business model than Vanguard or American," says Fidelity spokeswoman Anne Crowley. "Half our revenues come from non-fund, fee-related businesses like the brokerage business, where we are a significant player." Indeed, Lange is expected to emulate Lynch's method of mixing up the portfolio with some smaller companies. Even with the fund having lost half its assets, it remains a behemoth, which leaves Lange confronting the same hurdle that tripped up Stansky (and even Lynch in the very end): with so much money to invest he will be unable...
...McKinsey Global Institute, over the next 10 to 15 years Chinese companies will require 75,000 people to lead effectively in a global environment. Currently, the nation only has 3,000 to 5,000 such leaders. The HBS campus was the site of the first Program on Case Method and Participant-Centered Learning (PCMPCL). PCMPCL is a 10-day program that HBS hopes will help China and other Asian countries meet their demand for effective business managers and leaders. The intensive program focused on the participant-centered learning model and the case study method of instruction, which differ greatly from...