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McCarthy: Are you [Douthat and DeAraujo] suggesting then that if you are at the vanguard of your craft, you are a public intellectual with a wide audience and that because of that you should toe the line and stay mainstream and say exactly what Middle America would want to hear? You know, I said at the beginning of the year at a rally that we should think before we bomb and that got me put as number 32 on Lynne Cheney’s list of subversive academics. The fact of the matter is that there are lots of people...
Parents should look for a camp that teaches kids to make lasting changes in their eating and exercise habits. Lloyd Lamb attends Camp Vanguard, in Lake Wales, Fla., where he has learned to look at the labels on food for fat content and to walk after meals. He lost 40 lbs. last summer, his fifth at the camp. His parents have also learned to follow a healthier diet...
Harvard has few, if any, apologies to make regarding minority or underprivileged groups. The reforms of President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, a century ago, compellingly placed Harvard in the vanguard of education by opening the University to children of immigrant families, and that tradition is very much alive. Regarding faculty in Afro-American studies, Summers stated that Harvard “will compete vigorously to make [itself] an attractive environment.” I certainly hope none of the professors who promoted this ridiculous controversy gets rewarded with a raise...
OFFER JUST DESERTS. The Vanguard Group mutual fund company rewards employee loyalty and effort through an incentive program that accounts for as much as 30% of an employee's compensation. Even with a jittery stock market, employees stand to do well because results are determined as much by the company's progress toward its business goals as by the performance of its stock. "It's not strictly tied to the euphoria of the bull market or the despair of the bear market," explains chairman John Brennan. Employees seem to like the arrangement: turnover each year is less than 10%, about...
...white snow outside, green trees inside and Yuletide carols being sung by a choir around a battered upright piano. For the majority, carols sung by the Vienna Boys Choir are just peachy, Bing Crosby pushes the envelope, and jazz should stay where it belongs—at the Village Vanguard. For the dissenting minority, holiday songs have long been beaten into unholy submission by endless bland repetition, and jazz giants provide a perfect remedy by taking tradition and swinging it mightily...