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...lack of student input isn’t exactly “outrageous”—after all, Harvard isn’t a democracy, it’s a private institution—but if Summers really wanted to remind the faculties of the existence of the statement, he could have done that without adding any language to the document. He would have looked far less heavy-handed and accomplished even more if he had taken a cue from Professors Phillip A Kuhn and James Engell—who suggested reaffirming the statement in a September Faculty...
...hard to remember, standing in Enron's long shadow, that a company in a growth crisis can be as fascinating as one that's just plain in crisis. But Hewlett-Packard is doing its best to remind us. The personalities driving HP's long-running and very public merger debate are larger than life, and the whole of Silicon Valley is riveted by the story. Which, if you haven't been paying attention, goes like this: CEO Carly Fiorina wants a $25 billion marriage with Compaq--the largest tech merger ever--to avoid being squeezed between Dell (the personal-computer...
...when she skated out to receive her medal, Kwan will now wrestle with the burden of dealing with an Olympic victory that has slipped from her hands not once but twice. "I just wanted to come home with the gold," she said immediately after the competition. "I have to remind myself to keep my head up high." Her emotions still raw, the tears flowed freely when she left the ice the next evening after her exhibition skate to Fields of Gold...
...look at the women staring back at me as though they were normally proportioned. Time and again I forget that exposed collarbones and thighs only slightly larger than calves aren’t normal. Magazines don’t print disclaimers at the bottom of pictures to remind you of things like that. Wouldn’t it be great if they did? WARNING: model makes herself look this way FOR A LIVING. With a diet like hers, being photographed is about all she can handle. Please don’t try this at home...
...show me with a date sporting my tuxedo before a dance. But no matter how much you like getting dressed up, one of the driving motivations behind our attendance at these dances is that we want to preserve them, in our minds and in our plenitude of photos, to remind us of a perfect evening. To a large extent, formals are about constructed moments...