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...Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), and the Harvard Public Service Network held an information session yesterday to introduce students to 10 “activity-based learning” classes, three of which haven’t been offered before. Each of the courses includes community service to prompt students to draw from a volunteer experience for a deeper understanding of the subject matter being studied, according to Lisa M. Boes, a research officer for the Bok Center. Boes said these classes shouldn’t be seen as a watering down of the curriculum, since the service component...
...unsustainable.” He estimated for The Wall Street Journal earlier this week that the dollar must fall another 20 percent, and that the odds are only increasing that an unexpected blow to the U.S. economy, like a terrorist attack or a collapse of the housing market, could prompt a financial crash. “So far we’ve just seen a small ripple in the dollar and not the big tsunami that could hit someday,” he told the Journal. “That’s still a significant risk...
McConaughey’s words prompt one of the most moving scenes in the movie, in which Strathairn, after driving to the NCAA headquarters and waiting in the pouring rain, catches the NCAA president on his way to his car and pleads for his help. The president’s agreement embodies the theme of community that runs through the film, and the way that its rebuilding is largely attributed to such acts of compassion...
...special election to fill the seat. And as far-fetched as it sounds, many pundits say the possibility of an indictment was one of the reasons some people voted for the incumbent. As in this year's mayoral race, antipathy to the challenger was strong enough to prompt conservatives who would normally oppose Jefferson to vote for him, with the idea that it would be harder to dislodge Carter if she were elected, or to stay home, which played into Jefferson's hands. With Jefferson out in a year or so, they figured, it would be easier to replace...
...Good crisis management consists of five basic tenets, Bernstein says. The company's response should be prompt, compassionate, honest, audience-appropriate and interactive. "The information a company releases to stakeholders like investors and employees may be different than the information released to the public," Bernstein says. The information, he adds, "needs to be released in an interactive way so that all of your stakeholders have a means to ask questions and receive answers, such as on a web site...