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...alternative path that the SCCC presents is a bottom-up, student-driven, independent movement to bring a successful conclusion to this lengthy process to establish a social life for Harvard students. What it promises is a genuine rallying point for the entire Harvard community: a centrally located space for student groups to meet and host events, for alumni to take the pulse of the campus, for continuous planned and impromptu artistic exhibitions. Perhaps most importantly, a locale for individual students to come together and create the kind of spontaneous interactions that make it such a privilege to attend a school...
...Whether such efforts can truly work may determine the fate of Taiwan's economy. "The old model is a top-down approach," says ITRI president Johnsee Lee. "The innovation economy has to be more bottom-up. It needs more talent." Morris Chang says Taiwan lacks that talent, because the country's education system stresses rote learning, resulting in "very little independent thinking and very little creativity." Chang also points out that Taiwan has to contend with a greatly changed international environment. "China wasn't in the picture 30 years ago, neither was India," Chang says. "You have a big competitor...
General McChrystal's other big priority is going to be helping establish security in border areas to create the correct environment for a bottom-up stability campaign at the village level. U.S. and NATO military officials, working alongside civilian officials, can work with communities to push these people out. There is no point in trying to reconcile with the Taliban - and when I say the Taliban, I mean the leadership of the Taliban. We're never going to beat the Taliban and al-Qaeda by trying to shoot them all. However, I do believe that there are many tribes living...
...Stories written by someone your age, of your generation who speaks your language,” Umar says, “are more accessible, compared to a curator who speaks a more academic language.” “One goal is to have a bottom-up approach to the narrative where the public can create its own journey and share it with others,” Umar continues. “So you can see the museum from the point of view of an 11-year-old or a fashion designer or a tennis player...
...system had been structured to answer static Cold War-era questions, like how many missiles there are in Siberia. What the U.S. needed after Sept. 11, Andrus argued, was something that could handle rapidly changing, complicated threats. Intelligence organizations needed to become complex and adaptive, driven to judgments by bottom-up collaboration, like financial markets or ant colonies - or Wikipedia. (See the top 10 Secret Service code names...