Word: presentism
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...years CEOs and other managers have been receiving huge bonuses and severance payouts, even if they did a bad job (and they did, as the present situation shows). Wouldn't it be better to give them shares of their own company instead? And no money. This way, if they do a good job, they get the gain on the shares. And if they don't, too bad, let them suffer. Veronique Braem, STERREBEEK, BELGIUM...
...over - including two incentive checks from our government so we could spend even more money we didn't really have. So excuse me if I have a hard time believing that it is either the "evil bankers" or the "irresponsible home buyers" who are to blame for the present mess. Kathy Hornsby, CARROLLTON...
...present, the web of environmental outreach organizations mirrors the university itself in its complexity. Many departments and schools have their own green groups. Each of these groups runs a variety of programs to change the habits within its fief, many of which have been successful. Salient among these programs are green competitions—the Green Cup in the College, the Shut the Sash Competition, which pays labs to close energy-hungry fume hoods, run by the Green Labs program, the Green Skillet contest run by HUDS, and other similar programs across campus—in which groups are rewarded...
...better mechanism for dealing with hopelessness and uncertainty among our number, though, might be borrowed from the Quakers, say, rather than the Catholic Church. At present, we offer occasional confessional attempts at self-correction—from Room 13 counseling to the Writing Center, and other very worthy resources—aimed at slowing an errant skid off our prescribed upward track...
...young-adult equivalent of a retirement community, we should rate as our ultimate guide as our résumé and the development of an insatiable drive to succeed. It is but one mean kind of growth. Harvard is in love with itself, but we, its present students, need...