Word: questioned
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...moment, then, is try to make sense of the options before us and question our place and privilege in the world. The most pernicious aspect of the entrenched recruiting system is that it precludes this challenge to a large degree. Flipping through the advertisements in The Crimson or paying a visit to OCS creates the absurd impression that there is only one thing to do next year--make money...
...heavy-metal album. It was like watching Steve Young, the square Mormon quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, try to do an end-zone dance. It was like--in fact it was--Ken Starr volunteering information about his own sex life on national TV. "The answer to the big question is, no, I have not been unfaithful to my spouse," he told Diane Sawyer on 20/20 last week, adding, "I'm not trying to pat myself on the back, but I have tried to live by what I believe is my--my obligation and my responsibility." To my ears, this...
...floor and in walked Henry Ford with Charles Lindbergh. They walked down my aisle asking men what they were doing. I was working on a mechanical drawing of a clutch spring (which drove me out of engineering forever), and I was worried that they'd ask me a question because I didn't know what the hell I was doing--I'd been there only 30 days. I was just awestruck by the fact that there was Colonel Lindbergh with my new boss, coming to shake my hand...
...major imponderable in the life of Willis Carrier is whether he was actually a genius, which depends, of course, on the definition. Engineers will tell you that theirs is a craft more of persistence than inspiration. Yet Carrier was without question the leading engineer of his day on the conditioning of air (more than 80 patents). Carrier was also an exceptionally nice man, according to all reports, modest and sometimes droll, and a farsighted manager--he devoutly believed in teamwork and mentoring decades before the management consultants discovered it. One of his other management precepts, born of his own experience...
...want to spend their life confined to cubicles and being menaced by pointy-haired bosses. I don't know if that's true, but it does pass the sniff test. According to the parents who e-mail me, a lot of family conversations are beginning with the question, "Mommy, what's a mission statement?" and ending with the entire family in tears...