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...employers were asked to hire workers who had been ranked by their looks. If the employers saw only the resumes, beauty had no impact on hiring. Surprisingly, however, when telephone interviews were included in the process, beautiful people did better even though unseen by the employers. A lifetime of social reinforcement based on their genetic looks may have encoded into their voice patterns a tone of confidence that could be projected over the phone. Nature and nurture became thoroughly intertwined.Genetics and biology matter in human leadership, but they do not determine it in the way that the traditional heroic approach...
...standing army, or a multi-billion dollar budget, leadership on the Undergraduate Council perhaps offers at least an equally compelling proof of Neustadt’s thesis.Persuasiveness was a trait clearly prized by last year’s UC leader Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, a habitual social networker among undergraduates, faculty, and administrators.But for Andrea R. Flores ’10, who succeeded Sundquist as the UC’s executive last semester, that power appears to have come far less easily—both in University Hall and on the Council.It’s partly...
...other visitors. “Anytime you have any activity going on where people are close, you increase the risk of illness,” Campbell said. “All the seniors are on top of each other with everybody saying goodbye, and there are oodles of social events where people are in close proximity.” —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...Harvard College Library officials announced that the Quad library would be closed next year as a cost-cutting measure and would instead be reapportioned as a social space. Six days later, the larger cuts package was announced, including the closure of the Penthouse Coffee Bar at the Student Organization Center at Hilles...
...College, and the Houses are doing what we can to cut our budgets. Reimagining the shape of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and renewing the energy of Harvard Houses are critical and exciting tasks. We willingly undertake them. Working groups are at work—in Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, and on the Houses, on Student Life, on Undergraduate Education. Our salaries are frozen. But will all this really save the $200 million a year necessary to meet the structural deficit inherited by our talented and visionary President? Can they really do anything by next November...