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...gave many people an uneasy feeling about the Roaring Eighties. The spectacular failures of such '80s heroes as Michael Milken and Donald Trump have discredited the era's role models as well. ''The 1980s showed how ugly this country could be, like racism did,'' says April Gilbert, a Stanford M.B.A. and shipping executive who hopes to join a nonprofit company soon. ''In the 1980s I was fed up and almost angry with the behavior of people in this country,'' says Stuart Winby, manager of Hewlett-Packard's Factory-of-the- Future program. ''Those kinds of values are just empty...
...Kathleen Sullivan, dean of Stanford Law School, has recommended, the government should eliminate all contribution limits and have full disclosure. Candidates should name all of their benefactors and be held responsible for every reckless advertisement and every appearance of impropriety. Of course, this proposal isn’t very sexy and, as a result, will almost certainly not see the light of day. Instead, we are traveling down a dangerous path of less accountability and less responsibility...
...recent years, colleges and universities have turned to the Internet as a potentially revolutionary teaching medium. Some, like Virginia Northern Community College, have taken the concept to an extreme, allowing students to enroll in and receive credit for college courses without ever stepping foot on campus. Other schools, like Stanford, Princeton, Yale and Harvard, have steered away from offering full-fledged courses, instead moving toward making certain educational materials available to alumni. The area has also been the target of a few commercial ventures...
...Stanford and Boston University students, as well as Boston residents, have already bought tickets to Forum events, Grizzle said...
...Spring break was a little tiring and Stanford was right at the end," Christino said. "We got the job done...