Word: retreating
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...Unless you take The Da Vinci Code as a work of history, however, the glory didn't last. The order lost its purpose and credibility when the Muslim warrior Saladin drove the Crusaders from Jerusalem in 1187, setting the Templars on a path of retreat that saw them give up their last Mid-Eastern foothold, in what is now Syria, in 1303. From there, the decline was precipitous: The Templars failed in an effort to take control of Cyprus, and then, in 1307, Philip IV of France found it more convenient to order the arrest and torture of the Templars...
...private, however, the atmosphere inside the writing program is less cheerful. On Sept. 20, preceptors met with administrators—Jehn, McCann, and Interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam—at the Faculty Club and in the Barker Center for a one-day retreat...
...according to three members of the program, administrators failed to provide that reassurance at the September retreat...
...faculty retreat was a bit of a disaster,” one preceptor said. “David Pilbeam came in and gave an obviously unprepared speech where he talked about how we shouldn’t be worried about losing our jobs, that everything was okay, and that everything would stay the same in Expos. I think that was the moment that suddenly we preceptors saw ‘behind the curtain’ what a mess everything is in, how no one knows what they’re doing, and how we’re in more trouble...
...management guru, pushes his newest book, The Fall of the Human Intellect, one of 10 he has written over the decades ("Every word, between 4 and 6 in the morning," he later explains. "After 6, it's not worth reading.") He invites the audience to come to a YPO retreat in January at his Vedanta Academy, 67 miles (108km) southeast of Mumbai...