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This attitude of attempting to cope actively with conflicts is what Fisher says he hopes to teach his students in Soc Sci 174, a course sporting a hefty 72-page reading list and syllabus. Most of those pages contain detailed explanations of what students are expected to learn about particular diplomatic and conflict-solving techniques, such as breaking conflicts into bite-sized pieces, and making it easier for the other guy to do what you want him to. Soc Sci 174 is supposed to help bridge the gap between the theory and practice of international conflict-solving by teaching students...
Fisher emphasizes that he is not teaching pure conflict-solving theory, but a theory of how to deal actively with international problems. "In most courses students come in, sit down, and say 'Do it to me, teach me,' like it was a massage parlor," he says. "Here they have to take an active role, and that requires a lot more concentration and effort...
...screen all scripts before they reach him, discarding Harold Robbins and Ira Levin in the process. But then again, in accepting the role of Loren Hardeman, Olivier accepted the challenge of a role unlike any he had done before. At age 70, Laurence Olivier still has enough daring to teach us all a lesson...
...elimination of mandatory retirement would mean the only way colleges could retire faculty members who can no longer teach would be to review their competence. Because that review would have to apply to professors of all ages, no faculty member would have the assurance of employment provided by tenure...
...bill, providing job security until the age of 70, would therefore double the amount of courses such professors could teach, but would not significantly restrict the number of academic openings at Harvard, he said...