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...one’s personal or professional history will most likely never be spotted. It is unreasonable for every employer to fact-check every aspect of every résumé, and even with the accelerating size of the Internet, it probably never will be. This does not mean, however, that Wheeler’s alleged outing will cause fraud and forgery to increase. On the contrary, his story points to reasons why it will...
...references if your only employment experience consists of pretending to be a banana-export czar in a simulated negotiation." ("But my son is pregnant!" I told my negotiation partner. "You can’t expect me to fire him!" I lost the negotiation, by which I mean that I conceded absolutely every point, but I think I gained valuable expertise...
...Harvard lightweight squad came off of last season gunning for the Princeton Tigers, who had upset the Crimson in the final three races of the season. Improving on Harvard’s performance from Sprints last year, where it had won the Jope Cup as team champions, would mean winning gold in all events this year...
...Crimson men’s heavyweight varsity boat consisted of five sophomores, two juniors and one senior, as well as a senior coxswain, making it one of the youngest top eights coach Harry Parker has had in years. But youth does not mean inexperience. These oarsmen carried with them a sense of brotherhood they gained last year rowing on the freshman eight that took silver at EARC Sprints...
What does it mean for science to be an integral part of a liberal-arts education? How does understanding science productively complement the ability to read Shakespeare closely or to dissect a painter’s artistic intent? Part of the answer rests on the intellectual value of tackling a wide range of problems, hence gaining broad facility with ideas drawn from many fields. Problems are infamously disrespectful of boundaries, and thus solutions often demand openness to the approaches and lessons learned from seemingly disparate fields. To focus one’s intellectual passion is clearly worthwhile...