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...costs the world dearly every day. War is a profound habit -- and sometimes a necessity. When Neville Chamberlain declared ''peace for our time'' after Munich, he gave peacemakers a reputation for fatuous optimism and appeasement from which it took them years to recover. Philosophers of war since Hiroshima have taught, hopefully, that the nuclear threat has made armed conflict ultimately untenable as a Clausewitzian instrument (foreign policy that happens to kill) useful in settling disputes. But not everyone has absorbed the lesson. Among other things, war has an archetypal prestige and bristling drama with which peace has trouble competing: Milton...
...study, I’ve opted for the rebel over Mr. Right. There was a second musician: we discussed spirituality over Chinese take-out and watched reruns of “The Simpsons” while analyzing Shakespeare. He wrote existentialist poetry, listened to the Grateful Dead, and taught me to skateboard during our lunch hour. I managed to keep this crush in class by tutoring him before exam period and taking extra notes in math, a positive influence that only went so far: a physics teacher soon caught him shooting construction workers with a B.B. gun and his spring...
...Courses “would be synoptic and integrative in approach, and topically both wide-ranging and of considerable depth,” the report says. It suggests that such courses be team-taught by members of different departments...
...leaders. The intensive program focused on the participant-centered learning model and the case study method of instruction, which differ greatly from the usual lecture-based format of most Asian MBA courses, according to Baker Foundation Professor F. Warren McFarlan, who was one of 10 HBS professors who taught the program. Participants in the program attended at least six classes and seminars a day, in addition to the out-of-class preparation and exercises they were required to complete, according to a press release. Participants were also taught important instructional skills like how to lead discussions modeled...
...authorities were prohibited from distributing anything questioning this decision,” Silvergate said.“This particular issue...is still being debated by credible historians,” said Griswold. “When you have a historical debate in the private sector, students need to be taught both sides so they can make up their own minds...