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That something more is needed is, I hope, obvious. Mother Harvard should give all her young a sense of ethical imperative to use their talents to help others. The university is an academic institution, but it also aims to produce good citizens. We all need to develop the mindset of the sophomore who coordinated Hillel's hunger drive on Yom Kippur this past fall. He noted two basic facts: many people would fast on that day, and a lot of hungry people could use the money spent on that uneaten food. Once that kind of thinking took place, the rest...
...Iowa, when asked about his position regarding same-sex marriages, Forbes hesitated uncomfortably and then stammered incoherently like a rookie on a high school debate team. Yet, he has distinguished himself from the other Republican candidates with his claim to be a Washington outsider, immune from the bureaucratic mindset...
...world saw it explode in a horrific fireball, killing seven astronauts, including school teacher Christa McAullife. TIME's Jerry Hannifin reports: "NASA learned a hard lesson with this tragedy. It learned not to be so damn complacent about machinery and the people who monitor that machinery. It changed the mindset of NASA, which up to that time had a sense of overweening self-confidence. That arrogance contributed to the explosion. NASA lost not only the public confidence, but some of its own self-confindence as well. The lessons they were forced to learn might prevent this kind of tragedy from...
...longest time, there was the mindset that men are the normative standard," says Healy, a former member of Harvard's lesser governing board, the Board of Overseers. "As a result, it just somehow, curiously escaped people's minds...
Slaughter says she fears what would happen if researchers and policy-makers were to return to the mindset that dominated research and excluded women before the Women's Health Office opened...