Word: rigor
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...night. The question-and-answer session, sponsored by the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) was attended by approximately 30 students. HIS President Shaheer A. Rizvi ’08 said he assumed conservative students declined to participate in Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week because they saw that there was no analytical rigor or credibility to the campaign. “‘Islamo-Fascism’ is not a term any academic would ever consider using. It creates an Islam-hate week,” Rizvi said. Despite its failure to gain widespread attention at Harvard, Horowitz said he considers this...
...didn't know what he was doing," says the NYPL's Isaac Gewirtz, who curated the show and wrote an accompanying book, Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road. "But he was a first-rate writer, and my hope is that a new generation will be taken by the rigor of his mind." It's all there in the scroll...
...survey, conducted by the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescence and Young Adults. The survey found about 6.26 percent of Harvard students reported suffering from significant academic stress, compared with a reported average of 6.5 percent at other schools. The psychological rewards students receive from academic rigor contribute to the low rates of stress reported, said the author of the survey, Janis L. Whitlock. “I think it’s an indication that people are pretty well matched to where they are supposed to be,” said Whitlock, who directs the Cornell...
...corporate management a real profession? The intellectual rigor that legitimized business schools and turned the M.B.A. into a recognized credential has fallen by the wayside, argues Khurana, an associate professor at Harvard Business School. Instead of producing young professionals, he says, business schools are treating students as consumers and their education as a commodity. Exhaustively researched, Khurana's book examines the birth of the managerial class, the rise of the business school as an academic institution and what he calls its recent deterioration. This failure has created a climate ripe for corruption, and Khurana issues a call to arms...
...American and British athletes who compete with each other in tribal games while immersing themselves in indigenous culture. The show will air on the Discovery Channel at 9 p.m. tonight. For Rennell, a certified diver, first ascent mountaineer, and endurance athlete, the show offered an opportunity to escape the rigor of school life and embrace a new physical challenge. “By junior year, I was kind of disenchanted with school and I was feeling pressure to rush through my whole life and achieve all these things. I was sort of unhappy,” said Rennell...