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...found this less creepy and was completely understanding. Why? Because I have also gone through lists of names and facebooked unknown individuals—and don’t lie, you probably have too. Ah, facebook.com, that newfangled pop culture invention created by one of our very own. A tool for—what exactly? Socializing? Connecting to others on campus? Making groups for people with ridiculous interests in common? (I Like Audrey Hepburn; My First Pet’s Name Was Yoyo; I Have Four Lamps in My Room But Only Two of Them Are Plugged In). Although...
...brink of nuclear warfare with the Soviet Union, Schelling is for the insightful applications in his work. “The most striking characteristic of what he did in the 1950s and ’60s was to demonstrate precisely that this somewhat arcane tool...was not just a mathematical toy but actually could help us understand the world, and also help policy makers deal with it in a more realistic way,” Stanfield Professor of International Peace Jeffry A. Frieden said. “He helped people, including policymakers, understand what nuclear weapons meant to international politics...
...Hills, Mich., to sort out Chrysler, he has led a remarkable turnaround at the company, which swung back into the black in 2004 after years of heavy losses. In September Chrysler reported its 18th consecutive month of sales increases. In the U.S., Zetsche quickly wielded that favorite American management tool: the hatchet. He axed 26,000 jobs and browbeat suppliers to lower costs, but he also introduced what he called "disciplined pizazz"--a program to bring a focus on efficiency to the company's business operations without sacrificing its character. The imperious Schrempp, by contrast, continued to lurch from crisis...
...website is a big improvement. While useful, the old E-Resources website was a pain to navigate and made it difficult to find particular online journals and periodicals. With a long list of online journals and a crude search tool, most students resorted to browsing a few large resources like JSTOR or EconLit before they made the trek into the stacks of Widener Memorial Library, leaving most e-resources underused...
Garrett G. D. Nelson ’09 also said he is using Arabic as a tool to understand the Arab world...