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...found my call to public service and public interest law after I went to Washington for a one-year job in 1963, and stayed. Today’s students do not have to trust their luck. The foundation for their call to public service is right here, in a smorgasbord of activities as accessible as the frozen yogurt in the omnipresent self-serve machine—another Harvard amenity not present a half-century ago. So I say to them: Eat! Enjoy! Learn! Commit! Graduate! Serve...
...Line to Kendall Square. 5. Thursday, September 28 - Saturday, September 30. $25 wristband (available online at www.ticketbean.com) gets you all shows, or you can go à la carte. To some, it is an animated clownfish with a deformed fin. But in Boston, Nemo is also an independent music smorgasbord, featuring 300 artists and bands over three days of hipsters and hipness. Show your Harvard spirit by checking out our own Blanks, playing at the Paradise Lounge on Friday. Reigning “fun czar” John T. Drake ’06 and crew...
...eternity, then MR 54, “If There Is No God, Is All Permitted?” may be more to your liking. Sadly, Professor Jay Harris never actually answers the course’s headlining question. But after you’ve sampled the syllabus’ smorgasbord of theologians and philosophers theorizing about the relationship between earthly ethics and the existence of God, you just might be able to take a stab at the answer yourself. Plus, if you attend lectures religiously, then forgoing the reading is permitted. Harris’ lectures are so lucid that paying...
...that the boom will continue in the coming years.THE STATE AT HOMEThe Film Studies program at Harvard is going “swimmingly,” Connor says. To fulfill concentration requirements, students must take three mandatory courses on the history and art of film, as well as a smorgasbord of other advanced and interdisciplinary courses—a set up similar to that of most other university programs. Most, like Harvard, incorporate local resources (archives, theaters, visiting lecturer), ask for a senior thesis or film project, and approach film from historical, analytical, and theoretical perspectives. Film Studies encourages students...
...Asian financial crisis and Hyundai was forced to lay off 25% of its staff. Complicating matters, Hyundai agreed in 1998 to acquire South Korean rival Kia Motors, which had to be assimilated. Chung had little experience with the automotive industry. He had spent most of his career managing a smorgasbord of affiliates, including a steel company, a pipemaker, a shipping-container manufacturer and Hyundai Motor's service business. When Chung broadcast his intention to turn Hyundai into a Top 5 automaker, few took him seriously. Hyundai, like many family-controlled Korean companies, was ultra-hierarchical and slow to change. Division...