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...stripping: getting her degree, joining the Peace Corps, finding a husband. With just a set of finals and then summer classes before she earns her Bachelor’s, Bambi has a hard time making herself study for her classes at Salem State College: literature, import/export management, and pre-calculus. (“It sucks,” she says...
ENGIBOUS: In engineering, for the first three years, you're studying Maxwell's equations, thermodynamics, calculus--and you haven't got a clue why. What would be much more valuable in freshman year is to teach how an iPod works, how an airplane flies, then work backward...
Ebbers' conviction reflects a new calculus for corner-office occupants: that corporate crime may finally equate to lengthy prison terms. Many of the most notorious white collar villains of a generation ago received light sentences compared with what Ebbers faces. Junk-bond king Michael Milken, for instance, served only 22 months for securities fraud. Now CEOs must recognize the risks of an "I didn't know" defense and face the prospect of monumental consequences to go along with their monumental pay packages. That Ebbers lost hundreds of millions himself in the WorldCom collapse--buying more stock even as the company...
Some of his points ring depressingly true. Douthat cleverly turns sex and academia into a cold calculus: attempts to glean maximum success from minimal effort...
...members of Congress he's trying to influence know the trick: they fashion dubious groundswells all the time for themselves. But they also know the trick sometimes works. If the President succeeds in forcing members of Congress to take positions on reforming Social Security-reversing the political calculus that said don't touch the thing-it will not only be a masterful policy accomplishment but a victory for his stagecraft...