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...lzer, who calls himself "perhaps a little old-fashioned," is not a fan of M.B.A.s. "I favor a system where you learn how to think, how to combine things, how to set priorities," he says. "The subject you studied in school doesn't mean anything. What is significant is the training of your brain. My doctorate is in logistics, and I never worked in logistics, while our head of production logistics did his doctorate in nuclear physics." What he instead values most is instinct. "But you have to train that instinct," he notes...
...thought of it a few years ago, when Harvard students were noisily protesting yet another proposed dining hall cost-cutting measure–this time, to replace Cheerios and Fruit Loops with some kind of inferior generic cereal. Since then, Harvard students have made themselves heard on many subjects, from the wages of campus security guards to the proper use of Hilles Library. But Harvard—like most colleges around the country—has been curiously quiet on the subject of the Iraq...
...Early the next morning, after the Yard had been locked and administrators had repeatedly told students they would be subject to criminal charges if they stayed in the building, the Massachusetts State Police stormed University Hall...
...Both Florida and Michigan are struggling to get their delegates seated because they violated the national party's attempt to impose order on the nominating process by mandating that any state not authorized to hold its delegate selection contest before February 5 would be subject to penalties if it moved earlier. In both states, officials tried to call the national party's bluff and moved their votes to January; the Democratic National Committee responded by taking all of the delegate votes away from the two mega-states that are hugely important general election battlegrounds...
...Samuel Johnson, Hillary Clinton attempting to make jokes on television is like a dog trying to walk on its hind legs: really awkward for everyone involved. Since everything Hillary does feels like the result of at least eight focus groups, there must be some reason she has decided to subject the American people to this. Perhaps Huckabee’s exodus from the ring has left the Late-Night Comedy Demographic rudderless and open to suggestion. Yet watching Hillary’s efforts to wangle a laugh out of the American people serves as a reminder of the closest parallel...