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Complex, rocky and at times perplexing, a week's worth of horsing around at the sumptuous Home Ranch is the latest outdoor pursuit in management training. In today's corporate-training world, there are the old standbys like rock climbing, rope mazes and Dale Carnegie. But a wide variety of other programs have developed that purport to impart management wisdom: martial arts, golf (don't ask), rhythmic drumming (ditto), paintball and treasure hunts among them. Some trainers use improvisational comedy to supposedly unleash the inner Jay Leno in trainees, while other consultants bring along wild animals to scare...
...PURSUIT OF MADNESS...
...education from the world’s most prominent university. As such, we should be mindful of the way the report frames the goals of general education, and not just its suggested menu of courses. This means affirming the goal of the university as the institution dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and reason. (There is certainly no shortage of forces in the world pushing toward ignorance and irrationality.)My first reservation pertains to the framing of the “Science and Technology” requirement, which aims too low. I think the problem lurks in some...
...allowed under the NPT, but which the U.S. and European nations fear will give Iran the option of pursuing a weapons program. Still, Iran is sending mixed messages. Even as it defies U.N. demands, its nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani is dangling the possibility of a suspension of enrichment in pursuit of a deal. Mindful that nuclear policy is determined in part by the ongoing power struggle in Tehran, Western officials fear that failing to impose any penalty for Iran's defiance would vindicate the hard-liners and weaken the pragmatists...
...common objection is that student choice will digress into a mindless pursuit of an easy A. This claim is ill-founded. Students already seek out easy core classes, and lower workloads do not necessarily translate into inferior classes. An extra chapter of reading or a problem set per week doesn’t mean that the course will affect the way the student views the world in a greater...