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...better than my contemptuous friend was to me. Part of the beauty of Harvard is the diversity of regional dialects, and all the mix of cultures and backgrounds it signifies. Everyone from your Brooklyn-bred roommate to the “SoCal” girl in your section thinks her vernacular is the best. Our education isn’t just about response papers and problem sets; it’s also about exposing us to different ideas and perspectives, with the hope of producing cosmopolitan, tolerant and open-minded individuals. And part of that is learning to listen...
...trying to relate better to shoppers, Wal-Mart has bumped up training to improve what it calls customer engagement. In its redesigned consumer-electronics section, for instance, the company has discovered that it can sell pricier merchandise like flat-panel televisions and GPS equipment, but customers need a little hand-holding before laying down $1,500 for a set. It's happening just as consumer-electronics giant Circuit City has laid off 9% of its sales force and replaced it with less experienced, less expensive hires. Wal-Mart says same-store sales were up 4.6% in electronics in the past...
...Expos preceptors, faculty, and administrators share the concern that there is a disconnect between the foundation of skills and principles laid by Expos and the writing instruction that students receive in their sophomore, junior, and senior years. To be sure, many professors, tutors, lecturers, and section leaders make clear to their students the relationship between discipline-specific expectations and the elements of analytical writing that are common to the disciplines. At the same time, however, when students receive minimal feedback on their writing or are not introduced to the specific requirements of writing in the discipline, they feel justifiably disappointed...
...Boston Globe Style & Arts section recognized five Harvard faculty and students on its annual list of “The 25 Most Stylish Bostonians” released yesterday...
...strategic placement of dashes, the poem suggests that it might be read as a series of questions or statements—possibly between multiple speakers—introducing an element of interpretative ambiguity to Valentine’s portrait of desperation. Each of Valentine’s six sections explores a different manifestation of the theme of beauty in darkness. In the third part, “Strange Lights,” Valentine presents a series of poems written from the viewpoint of a patient in a hospital. The dire circumstance is made peaceful by gentle, imaginative language. For example...