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...Hillary Rodham Clinton never forgets to summon the argument that she has more experience. But as the Florida State simulations show, experience doesn't always help. In fact, three decades of research into expert performance has shown that experience itself - the raw amount of time you spend pursuing any particular activity, from brain surgery to skiing - can actually hinder your ability to deliver reproducibly superior performance...
...With this range of issues stemming from the nature of community service in general and at Harvard in particular, the nagging question remains: is doing something is always better than doing nothing...
...it’s not only the one-day projects that have this problem. Long-term service programs can cause equal harm. Tutoring programs in particular can be risky because students sometimes sever ties with children they have tutored for a semester or year...
...There is a great danger at Harvard of being paternalistic,” Winship says. “Harvard students in particular are prone to being labeled as patronizing in social service situations because of the University’s reputation as a bastion for the privileged and wealthy...
...State Bank of Pakistan is ratcheting up interest rates, though it still expects inflation "to remain high" through the rest of 2008. That won't impress vegetable vendor Faiz Mohamed, 50, who says that Pakistan's economic success in the past few years has benefited only the elite. "A particular class has earned a lot from the investment, the new [cell] phones, all that," he says, from behind his worn metal scales. But, he says, "the poor man has become poorer...