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Robert N. Anthony, the Walker professor of management controls emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS), died last week in Hanover, N.H. at the age of 90. He was best known for “Essentials of Accounting,” a ground-breaking self-paced primer that was first published in 1964 and is still widely used today...
...Anthony’s 1965 text “Planning and Control Systems: A Framework for Analysis” was “revolutionary” and perhaps his “greatest contribution.” Young did not use that description for Anthony’s 1964 primer on bookkeeping, “Essentials of Accounting...
...prepared to play a role in society because the discipline teaches them how to write and think. These two invaluable assets make them very appealing to law schools and employers. But I am interested in justifying the study of literature as an end in itself, not just as useful primer for more worldly endeavors. Is it after all a perennially elitist pursuit, the perquisite of an ivory-tower class, an ecstatic act of mental masturbation? And if it is the last, who cares? Am I disturbed by possibly devoting my life to something so solipsistic? Or does the persistence...
This folk-pop amalgam never descends into coffeehouse clich. For most of the songs, the Mexican chanteuse accompanies her velvety voice on acoustic guitar and now and then some rocking accordion. (Yes, accordions can rock.) She even experiments with reggaeton on Primer Da but makes it her own by adding Spanish guitar. The title track recalls a Yellow Submarine--era Beatles--as digested by Mexico. But it's the effortless singing and light tropical beat on Sin Documentos that catch Venegas at her swayworthy best...
...this moment that ...So Goes the Nation becomes a primer on how to win an election. The Republicans - especially Karl Rove - have achieved an almost mythological reputation for their campaign savvy, but So Goes exposes this brilliance as, essentially, a strategy based on acting like an adult. The G.O.P.'s major achievements: They stayed on message. They didn't leak. We expect the same from grade schoolers. Yes, this basic competence was combined with a certain amount of ruthlessness, but ruthlessness is not what the Democrats lacked. While willing to "fight with their fists," the Kerry campaign comes across...