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...hand I have a duty to my family, and on the other hand I have a duty to myself to get as much education as possible,” she says. “I’m kind of shackled to my little random life in the shadows here...
...might sound like I’m accusing Harvard graduates of being anti-intellectual, rebelling against a strict academic environment by taking solace in something unimportant. But, in fact, I think that we are over-intellectual: we seek to find an underlying argument or an overlying strategy in every random encounter...
...them. They try out novel ideas on small groups and abandon most of them, rather than ostentatiously announcing them to the entire world as the way of the future.Understand a problem before you try to solve it. “Shaking things up”—making random changes to a system rather than analyzing its operation—is irrational and usually makes it run worse. Making changes that affect people’s lives without considering the consequences is unethical leadership.An institution is community property, and if the owners want it changed, they should tell...
...phrasing similarities between [McCafferty’s] works and mine were completely unintentional and unconscious.” She made comparable statements later that week in interviews with the Times and Katie Couric on NBC’s Today Show.The apology did not mollify McCafferty’s publisher, Random House, which rejected the sophomore’s explanation that she unintentionally “internalized” the McCafferty novels. “Based on the scope and character of the similarities, it is inconceivable that this was a display of youthful innocence or an unconscious or unintentional...
...cent of every dollar spent on healthcare in Canada, but 15 cents for every dollar in America. “Americans are getting extraordinarily poor value for money in our healthcare system,” he said. The results are based on the Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health, a random phone survey conducted in both countries in 2002 and 2003, and were published last Wednesday in the American Journal of Public Health. —Staff writer John R. Macartney can be reached at jmacartn@fas.harvard.edu...