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...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...
...school students’ performance on the SAT and other standardized tests measures little more than their test-taking skills. Even for schools with large applicant pools, there is little reason not to eliminate the SAT as a requirement for admission—factors such as grade point average, rigor of schedule, and recommendations have been shown to be far better predictors of college success...
...Miike, believe the form still has life in it. Their movies show it does. Working in a genre many think obsolete makes the filmmakers as alert and precise as the outlaws they depict. The pictures can't coast on the clichs audiences love, so they need a rigor and daring a buddy comedy or action movie doesn't. The demand on the director is different too: not to make a blockbuster, just a strong, true film. Maybe these movies will grant the genre a stay of execution and ensure that the western will damn well not ride off into...