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...defeat. It should simply challenge us to reaffirm the importance of human creativity in our lives. As the technological revolution continues and as all of us leave here to fight its battles, we would do best not to lose sight of our most impressive and powerful asset: the human spirit...
...discussions help students to understand difficult concepts and expose them to viewpoints that they otherwise may never have considered. For a university that takes pride in its ability to provide a setting in which students with diverse backgrounds can share their experiences, intra-section debate is an invaluable asset. But such debate cannot occur when section sizes exceed 20 students. Voices struggle to be heard over one another, and the constant commotion eventually forces teaching fellows to transform their sections into lectures or question/answer sessions...
...this in the asset column of China's late Deputy Premier Deng Xiaoping: his market reforms helped make China one of America's biggest creditors. Awash in dollars from exports, China now buys more U.S. Treasuries than even the Japanese--$12.1 billion in U.S. notes and bonds through the first nine months of 1996,vs. the $11.6 billion Japan purchased. China owns more than $43 billion of U.S. Treasury debt, the world's fifth largest hoard, and moving...
...Professor Mansfield is brilliant and an asset to the community," said Jason B. Phillips '99. "Whatever he is doing I hope it's fruitful and [he] comes back...
...still summon U.S. Senators--the Keating Five--to his defense at the touch of a phone pad? Or procure the services of top law and accounting firms? Or hire Alan Greenspan, who, before he became Fed chairman, gushed over the "outstanding success" of Lincoln Savings & Loan, Keating's star asset? No. All that happened before Lincoln crashed in a $3.4 billion pile of broken dreams, the most costly savings and loan failure in U.S. history...