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...class discussions and the consultations he had with "top-notch faculty" were beneficial but he says it "was less a question of learning than reflecting." As Carballo says, "When you're in government, decisions have to be made the day before yesterday," but in school you have time to mull over them...
...decisions in the fall. One student who asked not to be identified said, "To me, this is just waiting through the summer till I decide what I really want to do." He added. "I just finished a year of experiences at Harvard and I'd like three months to mull it over...
...Corde say), you being to lose contact with human beings and with the world. You experience spiritual loneliness. And of course there are the classics to mull over. Dostoyevsky's apathy-with-intensity, and the rage for goodness so near to vileness and murderousness, and Nietzsche and the Existentialists, and all the rest of that. Then you tire of this preoccupation with the condition of being cut off, and it seems better to go out and see at first hand the big manifestations of disorder and take a fresh reading from them...
Once a month, a special group of 18 top SRI professionals in fields as varied as urban planning, chemistry and energy meet to mull the future in a paneled conference room overlooking a leafy courtyard. The program goes by the acronym of TEAM, which stands for Trend Evaluation and Monitoring. TIME Correspondent Michael Moritz last week became the first reporter ever permitted to attend an SRI brain-storming session. His report: hat in the world are Langmuir Blodgett films?" asked Beth Hiseler, senior office assistant. The question stumped her 17 colleagues for a few moments, but the discussion leaped...
...some of the questions began to come to light last summer, Bok consulted with several Faculty members individually and organized an ad hoc committee to mull over the issue. "This was very much in the context of thinking. 'Let's see how we can work this out in a manner that will conform with academic values and benefit the University,'" Bok says now, recalling that professors who got wind of the proposal and came to him in opposition to it "weren't mad--they were just concerned." By the time the school year began, it had become evident that academic...