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...husbands and sons was just a bad memory, like a bad grade on a test. This woman could not speak English, and of course I did not speak BCS (Bosnian, Croat, Serbian), so we greeted each other with “As-Salamu Alaykum” (Peace be upon you). She pointed to her T-shirt, which indicated that she was in the “Mothers of Srebrenica” group, and when I looked at her again I could see the sorrow of the thousands of victims concentrated in her eyes and the lines on her face...
...James P. Currier, founder and chairman of Medpedia—whose stated mission is to become the world’s largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine and health—has called upon faculty at the Medical School to lay the groundwork for the project...
...Harvard undergraduates got a taste of life at the Business School during last week’s Business Leadership Program. Created in 1997 by Harvard Student Agencies, the conference aims to teach students about the private sector through exposure to faculty members and various professionals from the business world. Upon arrival last Sunday, participants were immersed in a crash course on accounting, courtesy of management doctoral student Ethan S. Bernstein. “We want to prove that undergrads are prepared to sit in the seats of an HBS classroom,” Bernstein told participants. “You?...
...destructive, false urgency. "With an attitude of true urgency, you try to accomplish something important each day, never leaving yourself with a heart-attack-producing task of running one thousand miles in the last week of the race," he says. False urgency is marked by frenetic activity, meeting upon meeting, task force after task force and an anxious, angry and frustrated workforce. Guess which urgency is more common...
Sticking mostly to scholarly concerns, Hammonds did touch upon current affairs, including the rise of mixed-race presidential candidate Barack Obama. She discussed the norm of using phenotypic, rather than genotypic, racial identification. Obama is just as much Caucasian as he is African American, she emphasized, though he is identified as the latter because of his appearance...