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...author of the personal growth guide The Sedona Method, believes "the world is hurting and in turmoil. The distance between that trouble and our everyday lives has dissipated due to the widespread availability of cable news and the Internet. People are ready to find a way out beyond the normal paradigms we all live...
...everywhere.” Hyman’s efforts, though, have occasionally met with resistance from what he calls an “inward-looking, conservative” attitude to which some departments can be susceptible. “It can be quite challenging to make appointments outside the normal boundaries of discipline-based departments, which interferes with Harvard taking leadership roles in emerging disciplines and cross-disciplinary fields,” Hyman says. Deputy Provost for Administration Eric Buehrens ’75 says the provost’s office has evolved into “an incubator...
...think it’s normal for new student organizations to go through cycles,” Baldegg said. “I think [Vandenberg] and the other kids working on it will figure out a new infrastructure...
...Speaking to a TIME reporter just seconds before a phone call from Oslo to tell him he had won the Nobel Prize, Yunus, 66, explained that the revolution behind microcredit is the way it upends normal notions of banking. "Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor," he said. "All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out." In his Nobel speech, Yunus made clear his belief that access to credit ought to be a basic human right, and advocated the acceptance of "social businesses"-organizations that are self-sustaining...
...philosophy of general education, and they should teach their classes within a department instead. Professors will not be able to simply add a final exam in order to join general education; they will have to tailor their courses to adhere to a new philosophy of contemporary relevance to a normal citizen. But the Faculty’s most recent discussions, and last week’s alterations to the Preliminary Report by the Task Force on General Education, show an increasing disregard for the guiding philosophy of the new “Core” and an undue focus...