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...major triumphs resulting solely from his personal interventionism, he is nonetheless unbowed. His first concern is to teach his letter recipients, as well as his students and readers, to think clearly about problem solving. And thinking clearly, in his view, begins with thinking small. "All the prizes in academia and journalism are for making the biggest statement about any problem you can," he says. Fisher believes instead in "fractionating:" breaking the problem down into individual steps, then deciding at each stage what is wanted from the adversary and determining what he can reasonably be expected to give. Otherwise, governments often...
...time they just treat you to their individual ideas on some topic, presented in the scintillating lecture format; on a rare occasion, their ideas may even be more interesting and useful than your own, depending on which of you has been more calloused to life by over-exposure to academia. Afterwards they have the nerve to grade you on how well you have been able to put up with their particular fetishes. You should be grading them on how entertaining or useful their lectures were; on second thought, grading puts it mildly, you should be sentencing them...
Having written background papers for Congressional candidates two years ago, Roberts is familiar with this work. He also teaches courses on both the environment and antitrust policy. "I want to learn how people conceive of the issues outside of academia and I'm very interested in the policy-making process," he said. "So this is a very educational opportunity...
...statement signed by 35 people claiming to be the occupiers of Mass Hall and released to the Crimson yesterday says in part. "It is not acceptable to expel 19 students under the guise of protecting the chastity of academia, a purity already violated by the political entanglements in which Harvard is wrapped...
...appointment this week of Paul N. Ylvisaker as dean of the Graduate School of Education portends more than a shift in the way Bok will be spending his time. It points up once again that Bok operates on an administrative plane which hardly follows the normal guideposts of academia...