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Additionally, tests rarely capture passion, drive, amiability and fundamental decency—all priceless character traits. If they did, Harvard would admit students based solely on test performance. In fact, one could argue that emotional stability is more important than pure intelligence for most forms of success. Perhaps Justin Chapman’s example is most telling. Though his intelligence is now in question, his emotional insecurity is not. During a recent examination, Justin threw stuffed animals and hid under a table. And psychologists suggest that Justin may suffer from never being able to live up to his falsified scores...
Explosive-ordnance-disposal experts with the Joint Special Operations Command are on call to fly in and assist the scientists in taking apart anything they find, but so far, NEST has turned up nothing in the searches. Administration officials admit that, just like putting sky marshals on airliners to foil potential hijackers, sending the NEST teams out is a shot in the dark. "But it's better than having them sitting at home doing nothing," says...
Executives admit the company might have been naive in the past. "We had not yet had an on-the-ground experience in a multicultural environment," says ceo Jay Rasulo, a Disney veteran who took the helm of Euro Disney in 1998. "It was really the first park that had the majority of its guests coming from very diverse cultural backgrounds." Still, Euro Disney at first believed that Europeans wanted an American product. They didn't - and lessons have been learned. The refreshment stands sell espresso, and you can now have wine or beer with your sit-down (and often tasty...
...cited to make certain that she had not somewhere mistaken a phrase of her own for a phrase of the author to whom she was footnoting. I do not minimize that error; it was one no scholar should make, and one Doris Kearns Goodwin would be the first to admit she should not have made. But there can be no doubt that, unlike the student who turns in someone else’s work as her own and hopes the instructor won’t notice the cribbing—the student for whom the Harvard disciplinary rules to which...
...others’ work,” Goodwin embraces the concept of accountability in facing these transgressions head on, almost to excess. Her recent words and actions serve as the most appropriate model for those self-aggrandizing members of Harvard-at-large who are too full of themselves to admit that they too are only human...