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...These basic premises require that we eschew hubris for humility. Knowledge of our own contingency should alert us to the contingency of our own knowledge: From the impossibility of transcending the limitations of the circumstances to which we are confined, it follows that no one person can know the world??s workings completely. Each person’s perspective is shot through-and-through with their particularity; hence, while each of us has our own version of reality to contribute to a democratic milieu, no one else can be spoken for. In fact...

Author: By Adaner Usmani | Title: Against Leadership | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...turn away from the pretensions of “save-the-world?? politicking is—at its core—a revolt against a particularly pernicious Enlightenment ideal, which assigned the task of social change to the “best and the brightest”. As Immanuel Wallerstein has argued, because thinkers in that tradition believed that rational thought promised progress, “it followed that normal political change ought to follow the path indicated by those who were most rational—that is, most educated, most skilled, therefore most wise...

Author: By Adaner Usmani | Title: Against Leadership | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...Orin C. Smith, the president and CEO of Starbucks Coffee Co. Zobel was one of five Business School graduates to receive the award this year. The other four were Donna L. Dubinsky, who helped pioneer handheld computers; A. Malachi Mixon III ’62, who heads the world??s leading maker of home medical equipment; Sir Martin S. Sorrell, a leading advertising executive; and Hansjörg Wyss, chairman of a global medical device company...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Filipino Businessman Wins HBS Award | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...standards, European food portions are tiny, but living abroad, I’ve come to see things in a different light. In reality, American portion sizes are huge, not to mention that they contribute to a national obesity epidemic and they flat-out waste food. The rest of the world??s food suppliers manage to provide reasonably-sized portions. Why can?...

Author: By Justine R. Lescroart | Title: Less is More | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...future attacks. Effectiveness Factor: 9 Judas Factor: internal strife, eventual forgiveness, immortalization in liturgy/musical 5) The Bull-dozer KO Park a bull-dozer outside of Sever. After section, bulldoze opponent, thereby literally crushing her. Effectiveness Factor: 10 Jail Time: 10 to life So the next time you see the world??s worst person hogging a table at the Greenhouse, wearing a stupid costume on the shuttle circa 11 p.m., or swiping into freshmen dorms, just smile demurely and say, “Whatever. I’ll see you in section...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You WIll Be Crushed: FM's Guide to Throwin' 'Bows in Class | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

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