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...logic classes because they could just make little arguments and not work as hard.”Teskey’s concerns are serious, but he’s careful to point out that they’re concerns, and nothing more malicious.“Professors like to trust each other. We shouldn’t be condemning each other’s disciplines. If it’s a recognized discipline then we have a professional and moral obligation to respect it,” he says. “The intellectual system really only works on trust...
...both then and now, as an asset in reorganizing a University marred by internal strife.“The situation today seems to be similar in some respects,” Bok writes in an e-mail. “The faculties are at least to some extent divided, trust seems to be in short supply, and strong emotions have been in evidence.”LEADERSHIP 101Vagt’s favorite memory of Bok is from his tenure as law school dean. Agitated students threatened to take over a room where the faculty was scheduled to have a meeting...
...China actually holds only limited sway over the independent-minded Kim Jong Il. The loss of Soviet support and China’s normalization with South Korea in the early 90s has transformed the Chinese-North Korean relationship into one built more on necessity and convenience than allegiance and trust. In fact, China fears pressuring North Korea and causing the collapse of the Kim regime, which would leave China responsible for dealing with a failed state on its border and the humanitarian disaster that would entail...
...headfirst on cafeteria trays. Canada is now a skeleton superpower, finishing 1-2-4 in the men's event and adding a bronze in the women's. What did the face-first sliders do right? "Even though skeleton is an individual sport, the athletes learned to work together and trust each other," says skeleton team manager Teresa Schlachter. There was a support team--coaches, sport scientists, massage therapists, video experts and nutritionists--"passionate about what they do, who worked together to help each athlete optimize their performance." The skeleton team is seeking new recruits, and it has world-ranked junior...
Scholars of the Academy Awards--and there are millions of us, filling out our office-pool Oscar ballots, summoning our expertise on movies most of us haven't seen--are like weather forecasters without radar. We put on a bright face, stick our fingers in the wind and trust in dumb luck...