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Such a disappointing result is the rather unsurprising product of a one-year process conducted behind closed doors and largely driven by the narrow-minded agenda of a University President who, to judge by his repetitive gene-chromosome rhetoric, seems intent on turning Harvard into his alma mater, MIT. (Oddly enough, the sciences may well lose the most under the proposed revisions: a delayed concentration decision, “mandatory” study abroad and decreased field-of-study requirements will do no favors for undergraduate science concentrators.) Lawrence H. Summers—whose comments on undergraduate education at last...
...These are tools that allow citizens to get around content filters that exist in the countries that they live in,” Deibert said. “They would be distributed as an open source product for citizens to use worldwide...
With a top-class product (new airplanes, leather seats and live TVs on board), JetBlue challenged the skeptical perception of new airlines. But Neeleman, 43, also changed the reality. His obsession with employee happiness and customer service (when the blackout in August 2003 shut down most airlines, Neeleman drove out to the tarmac to beg for fuel) has set JetBlue apart from the rest of the industry. His motto: "Bring humanity back to flying." The legacy airlines, which haven't made a dime since 2001, can't beat JetBlue, so they have started their own look-alike versions...
...practices. Novartis was quick to sign on to the U.N.'s Global Compact, which requires that its corporate signatories commit to the highest environmental, human-rights and labor standards wherever they operate. "He epitomizes a kind of leadership that puts equal emphasis on the social value created by the product and its economic value," notes Rosabeth Kanter, a consultant and professor at Harvard Business School...
...Chinese are intensely proud of Yao, who has done the Confucian thing by living with his parents and sending polite holiday cards to his teammates and opponents, Shaquille O'Neal included. But few people outside the Middle Kingdom ever imagined how deeply a product of China's socialist sports system would capture American hearts. Earlier this year, Yao signed a deal with McDonald's, which had dropped its previous spokesman, Kobe Bryant. Kobe was supposed to be the next Jordan. Turns out the new Michael is a man named Ming. --By BROOK LARMER, author of a forthcoming book on China...