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...Eastern Sprint champion Radcliffe qualified directly for the Grand Final on Friday, winning its opening heat. Powering out to a two-length lead by the halfway point, the top-seeded Black and White easily bested runner-up Stanford by better than 14 seconds...
...trickiest decision for immigrant business owners is often the exit strategy. Though both have worked in the business, Perez-Carillo's son Ernesto III, 22, is a recent Stanford grad and consultant, and his daughter Lissette McPhillips, 30, is a lawyer. So Perez-Carillo knew he faced a choice in 1999 when tobacco company Swedish Match offered to buy El Credito for a reported $20 million. He sold. "Most people would have thought, Millions and millions of dollars--this is my dream, my dream has come true," says McPhillips. But for her father, "there was a sadness there." Perez-Carillo...
David M. Kennedy teaches history at Stanford University. His most recent book, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, won a Pulitzer Prize...
Both Yale and Stanford offer its first-year students optional “Great Books” programs—a unique curriculum that introduces students to texts the colleges deem most important or influential. Yale’s program, “Directed Studies,” attempts to introduce students to the “central texts of the Western tradition,” through a three yearlong courses in literature, philosophy, and historical and political thought. Stanford’s program, “Structured Liberal Education” (SLE), “asks students to confront...
...this demand should be met. Currently, there is no way a Harvard first-year can attempt to replicate the type of academic experience—a guided tour of what matters and why—enjoyed by Yale students in “Directed Studies” and Stanford students in SLE. The Wall Street Journal recently commented in response to the curricular review report that “universities are in effect abdicating a role we once assumed defined their mission: providing direction.” A program like “Directed Studies” or SLE offers...