Word: wisdoms
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...personnel director for a printing company so he didn’t understand it at all! But they eventually came around to it once I became successful.9.FM: A lot of people at Harvard have pressure these days to be doctors, lawyers, I-bankers. Do you have any wisdom, as graduation is nearing, as a man that did not take the standard route?WS: Figure out what you love, and do it. There are lots of boring jobs out in the world and someone has to do it, I am just glad it is other people. 10.FM: People are really passionate...
...book has some other surprises: it is in many ways an unabashed love letter to the CIA. Officers are praised for their wisdom and energy at every turn; even in the agency's worst moments - as when it failed to sufficiently alert the FBI about two 9/11 hijackers in the country in 2001 - Tenet is unable to find much fault with his troops...
...some officials in the Pentagon, the accelerating violence simply proved the wisdom of excluding these Ba'athists and ex?army members from the future of Iraq. As late as the spring of 2004, at a meeting in the White House, one of our officers was asked for "out-of-the-box" ideas to stem the violence. He suggested rescinding CPA Proclamation Two and mounting an aggressive campaign to round up former army members and enlist them to help secure Iraq's borders and maintain internal security. As later described to me, a U.S. Army colonel present, who had been...
Former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and three other Harvard professors led a dinner on etiquette last night, teaching students how to interact in a business setting in China and imparting wisdom on the lack of a “double-dipping ban” abroad. Kirby opened the event with a series of remarks on Chinese etiquette, but admitted to the audience that giving a speech before dinner was, in fact, not consistent with Chinese tradition. “This is actually not the kind of thing that would happen at a Chinese banquet, but we have...
...original thinker,” said Barry Eichengreen, who led the selection process and is a professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley. “He is iconoclastic, but constructive, and I think he has a healthy skepticism about the conventional wisdom thrown up by the various disciplines in the social sciences.” The Prize, which includes a $10,000 gift, was established in honor of Albert Hirschman to recognize scholars “who have made outstanding contributions to international, interdisciplinary social science research, theory, and public communication...