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...Sean MacFarland, the commander of U.S. forces in Ramadi, knows another powerful man when he sees one. MacFarland understood immediately the sway Sheik Abdul Sittar holds in Ramadi when he met the tribal leader for the first time in August. "The walls were just lined with guys in the sheik robes," MacFarland says, describing the scene at Sittar's compound when he arrived for a formal meeting with the sheik shortly after assuming command in the area. Among Sittar's guests that day were local police officials who often fail to turn up for meetings called by the governor...
...mathematics professor and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania David Harbater ’74, Math 55 still holds sway. “If someone applies to graduate school at Penn, and I see that he or she was in Math 55, that would certainly get my attention. It definitely means something...
...well chosen. Unfortunately, the other effect employed—having someone offstage occasionally shout to accompany different segments of the dance—was less effective, serving more to distract viewers from the dance than to complement the dancers’ movements. This was followed by “Sway,” a charged Latin style dance self-choreographed by Filip Ilievski, a graduate student at MIT, and Jennifer M. Markham ’07 of Harvard Ballroom. Ilievski and Markham certainly worked the stage, pulling off a riveting and obviously emotional performance. The two later returned...
...experiences also sway us, goading our brains into assessing risks based on rapid whispers of positive or negative emotion. "If you look at genocide, we just don't react," says Paul Slovic, a psychology professor at the University of Oregon. "With 9/11 we lost 3,000 people in one day, but during 1994 in Rwanda 800,000 people were killed in 100 days - that's 8,000 a day for 100 days - and the world didn't react at all. Now you see the same thing with Darfur...
...While that perpetually-contentious policy has since lost its revolutionary edge, the golden standard of diversity still holds sway across higher education...