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...three 'check' rides where their pilots skills must meet FAA standards and at least one recurring training session ground school per year. On top of that, pilots are required to watch each other and report if there are problems that could affect safety in any way. "If rigid enforcement of the age 60 rule ever served any valid purpose-a doubtful proposition at best-it certainly outlived its usefulness long ago," says Tony Bothwell, the attorney representing the pilots' challenge...
...further complicate matters, HBS’s inexplicably rigid reaction—it has issued a blanket rejection of all applicants who accessed the unpublished decisions website—leaves no room for the possibility that the individuals accessing the decisions page were not the applicants themselves. Clark has stated that applicants should be responsible for their passwords, implying that HBS would not consider cases in which curious spouses, siblings, or other people accessed decision websites. Stanford Graduate School of Business’s policy of dealing with applicants on a case-by-case basis is more reasonable and flexible...
This tendency to defy strictures of rigid artistic interpretation lies at the core of Prince’s performance philosophy. “I throw spaghetti against a wall to see what sticks,” she said of finding a suitable technique for a new character. Later she added, “If people don’t ‘get’ you, kindly move them out of the way and keep going…Life’s too serious to be serious...
...often seems that your own disregard and anger toward these dissidents in your midst may be every bit as great as the hostility that you say exists toward your philosophy and teaching. Is your own approach to teaching within a hierarchy of principles seen as equally rigid and uncompromising...
...should the character of each House be homogenized. The zoning procedure, however, still gives Houses great autonomy, allowing them to maintain House personality, and at the same time, helping them better meet the academic needs of students. Furthermore, this new selection process would not burden tutors with too many rigid requirements. Rather, it would continue to allow tutors to serve as young intellectuals, exploring their own interests and sharing stories about their endeavors with undergrads. The only difference for tutors would be that they would interact with more students, something no one can criticize...