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Harvard Business School Associate Professor Michael Watkins, an expert in emergency response, says that Harvard risks unnecessarily alarming people by sharing information about emergency planning.
“I can come up with the scariest things channeling my inner Stephen King,” Watkins says. “But I’m not sure it’s productive to have people imagine [that].”
The selection of three courageous women--Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom, Coleen Rowley of the FBI and Sherron Watkins of Enron--as Persons of the Year was inspiring [Dec. 30--Jan. 6]. Each exemplifies "good work"--work that is excellent in quality and socially responsible. Their stories reveal that each had...
Cooper, Watkins and Rowley are admirable people, but I thought TIME selected Persons of the Year on the basis of their influence on the whole world. I can't see that these whistle-blowers had the slightest influence on global events. The people who changed our lives the most all...
>> Some readers felt that Cooper, Rowley and Watkins deserved a better designation than whistle-blowers. "The term has a disloyal and shady connotation," wrote a Connecticut reader. "Surely you could have found a more kindly word to describe what they did." A Los Angeles woman concurred: "Calling them whistle-blowers...