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...Much of the knowledge I have accumulated thus far would be difficult to duplicate in classroom situations. It is largely a process of trial and error. Fortunately I seem to possess talent in the field of business, so the errors I make are fewer and fewer all the time and, more importantly, less severe." Spitz said, "Certainly some coursework would have been helpful and I regret not taking advantage of business classes offered at Indiana...
Marglin argues that while most professors here view him as a partisan, they deny that they themselves possess an ideology. "Many Harvard professors think of ideology as something the other fellow has," Marglin comments, adding that the prevailing attitude at Harvard is that the study of the social sciences can be objective, and this results in a limited spectrum of political ideologies here. He points to the preponderance of he main outlook in the Economics Department: a right-wing, conservative, free-market one. "If you compare my department's political-cultural spectrum to the world's, it by no means...
...Harvard Classics, successfully exhibiting the virtues of team basketball, possess the best seasonal record (23-4) of any basketball squad at Harvard University...
...contact unsuspecting pigeons, or potential victims. The salesman, in a follow-up phone call, might then say discreetly, "If you act now, I can squeeze you in on a contract." While most of the contracts have not yet fallen due, investigators allege that brokers in fact do not possess the oil to back up the bogus deals. Eventually, customers would find that the salesmen had either left town or were no longer in business at the time of delivery...
...latest novel demands greater analytic skills and literary knowledge. No teacher could spoonfeed Darkness Visible to eager sixth and seventh graders the way he might have Lord Of The Flies. For example, the Miltonic overtones, from the title's derivation in Paradise Lost to the satanic qualities that possess so many of his characters, must be perceived for Darkness Visible to succeed as the literary achievement that...