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...biggest concern with arts at Harvard is that the theatre community does not really, as far as I can see, have any adult professional intervention. As I have observed, this has led to substandard productions, some safety issues, disorganization, and obvious unprofessionalism...
...free market, nothing sparks excellence like competition. Substandard products get weeded out, inefficient firms go bankrupt and better goods get produced. But not everybody likes competition. Bureaucracies often fight to defend substandard products by insulating themselves from competition. At Harvard, the age-old impulse to avoid competition has just taken an ironic twist: members of the Economics Department, that bastion of free-market fundamentalism, voted on April 9 to prevent one of their own from offering an alternative...
...Ellison that the majority of each class’ teaching fellows (TFs) must be hired a semester in advance has been widely welcomed as a way to improve students’ educational experiences. But, unfortunately, undergraduates should recognize that many of their academic woes are based not on substandard TFs but on the woolly philosophy that underpins the existence of sections in their current form...
...configured, however, TFs are hamstrung by the need to evaluate students and cannot provide the sort of environment where such discussions can routinely take place. Hiring the majority of TFs earlier may make substantive improvements to the quality of instruction in the sciences. But it will not significantly change substandard humanities sections. Only bold measures can tackle that. Implementing Kirby’s vision of preregistration would have been a nightmare. But that doesn’t mean that we should abandon all grand dreams of radically improved undergraduate education...
After the Amex embarrassment, Weill and his band of mercenaries took over Baltimore's Commercial Credit Co. (CCC), a substandard subprime lender, then used CCC to go after bigger and bigger deals until they got to Citicorp. The bottom line wasn't the main thing; it was the only thing. As Langley shows, in Weill's world, anything that didn't produce revenue was gone. No perks were too small to eliminate...