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...offered the chance to devise a land-use approach that revives charming old neighborhood patterns rather than producing alienating cul-de-sacs or artificial quaintness. It has the opportunity to rebuild itself in a way that emerges from its rich heritage while guarding against any projects that would sap its soul...
...What promised to be a nail-biting finish turned into a laugher as Harvard capitalized on a depleted Dartmouth bullpen and some shoddy infield defense to plate 14 runners over the final two innings and sap the drama out of the afternoon’s decisive second game...
...free-market rhetoric that made voters uneasy in last year's poll. And she has won the admiration of party members and rivals alike for her consensual management style and grasp of detail. "I'm convinced that she is really the right person for Germany," Henning Kagermann, ceo of SAP, the software giant, tells Time. "She's very pragmatic, she can listen, and she is not always talking about these grand visions but about small executable steps. We are very comfortable with her style." But are small steps enough to tackle Germany's underlying economic woes? Merkel has spent...
...Langguth, a political scientist at Bonn University. "People like that." Cabinet meetings are more open and less hierarchical than they were in Schröder's day, though Merkel can be ruthless with long-winded colleagues. "When I met her alone it was like meeting a leading business figure," SAP's Kagermann tells Time. "She is very effective at managing discussion." Merkel also likes to keep her channels of communication open. She often abandons the desk in her vast Chancellery office and works instead from an oval conference table that puts her on a par with colleagues. She prefers visiting...
...Getting to the Core,” then-University President Derek C. Bok, addressing an audience of professional school faculty in 1976, said that whether or not ethical standards have declined, “most people seem to think that they have, and this belief...[can] sap the willingness to behave morally to others.” According to Keller, Bok thought that universities could make an important contribution to society by developing students’ sensitivity to moral questions.Towards that end, a requirement was proposed in “Philosophical Analysis,” which later became Moral Reasoning...