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...Cathay has tried to turn its global training headquarters near Hong Kong International Airport into a temple of team spirit. Employees can wander into classes for yoga and belly-dancing and get a drink at Dhakota's, the company bar. "It's like a big playground," says Steve Lawrence, one of Cathay's training and development managers. The rooftop patio hosts just about every hokey team-building exercise ever invented. Trainees regularly participate in 100-person lap sits, in which each person sits on the next one's knees, forming a circle while trying mightily to stay balanced. There...
...gives the faculty the opportunity to democratize knowledge, much in the spirit of President Faust’s inaugural address,” said Harvard’s new University Library chief, Robert C. Darnton...
...Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) took place last Sunday in the MAC Quad. This Field Day-style athletic event, spearheaded by Lowell House BGLTSA tutors Christina G. Warinner and Marcus Alexander, included an egg-run, a three-legged race, hot potato, and the orange pass. Despite the fierce competitive spirit, the Gay Games are meant to be fun and all-inclusive. “Our BGLT students are very integrated in the Houses. They’re not outsiders like they were 20 years ago, and so we wanted to give them an opportunity to come with all their friends...
...forces that unite this great University and that will propel it to new heights in the future. In this context, the fiery speech that Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 delivered criticizing the College administration was inappropriate and wholly out of character with the spirit of the occasion. Charged with speaking on behalf of students at the College and all of the graduate schools, Petersen’s tactless rhetoric undermined the many legitimate points he made and rendered us embarrassed to be among the constituency that he purported to represent. The hero of Petersen?...
...small but growing international circuit, which includes at least five competitions throughout Europe. "I try to strike it from the side where you get a nice line right across the nut," he says. Although he lost in the first round to a man dressed as a scarecrow, his spirit remains in tact. "You lose and you get bruises," he says. "You've just got to suck...