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Buttenweiser University Professor Stanley H. Hoffmann said that while Harvard’s previous two curricular reviews were founded on clear visions, this...
...prisoner abuse say it is remarkably easy for people to lapse into sadistic behavior when they have complete power over other human beings, especially if they feel the behavior has been sanctioned by an authority figure. In a classic series of studies conducted at Yale in the 1960s, psychologist Stanley Milgram showed that psychologically healthy volunteers did not hesitate to administer what they thought were electric shocks to another human being when instructed to do so by a researcher. Two-thirds followed instructions and kept raising the voltage--right up to levels marked DANGER: SEVERE SHOCK and XXX. Milgram found...
...words did little to settle debate over the extent of China's overheating or the prospects for a soft landing. The latter is "possible but difficult," says Morgan Stanley's chief economist for Asia, Andy Xie. Because of the country's underdeveloped capital markets, "China doesn't have the instruments to fine-tune the economy," he says. And what does Greenspan think? Chinese authorities "are wholly aware of a rate of growth in a number of industries which are not sustainable," he said last week. With unruly markets hanging on their every word, both Greenspan and Wen are being careful...
...board this week has demonstrated that this is truly a 'do-nothing Eisner board.'" ROY E. DISNEY AND STANLEY P. GOLD, former Disney board members, renewing their criticism of CEO Michael Eisner, shortly after Comcast dropped its $54.1 billion bid to take over the company...
Which fanatics did this, however, has been a difficult question to answer. In a 1985 article for The Washington Post, Dale Russakoff claimed to have discovered the original authors of the plaque: Stanley Stefancic and Tom Sugimoto, graduate students at Harvard in the mid-60s. Since then, the plaque has been stolen and replaced, with no clues as to the identity of the culprit...