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...team player.” The kind of team player who would comfort such detractors might have felt at home in Dixie, Nazi Germany, or the Bush White House, but he or she does not deserve tenure in the Acropolis of world education. Tenure affords and demands a finer moral compass. We must act on the wisdom that justice withers when intended for just us. And “free speech” is nothing but the self-congratulation of the moneyed and the mighty when the university does not fulfill its unique calling to defend this principle...
Dale Carnegie Training--which teaches the self-improvement techniques in Carnegie's landmark 1936 book, How to Win Friends and Influence People--is one of several institutes that have opened shop in this high-tech hub to teach India's legions of ambitious IT graduates the finer points of life in the modern workplace. "I was overwhelmed when I moved to Bangalore last year. I saw all these people who looked so smart and spoke perfect English," says Pallavi Deshpande, 28. Her college in the central Indian city of Nagpur had given her a master's degree in computer science...
...seen the political debates and watched the candidates haggle over the finer points of NAFTA support. As the presidential race heats up and barbs continue to fly across party lines, am I the only one that is feeling the effects of issue fatigue...
...Italy's uninspiring present tense. Yet the very success of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, which is rapidly building a reputation for thoughtfully curated exhibitions, is cause for good cheer - as this exhibition shows, Italy may have lost speed, but it still has a gift for delighting in the finer things in life...
...Nevada caucuses. To many Washington wags, the very notion evokes images of show girls arguing with croupiers about the finer points of Hillary Clinton's healthcare policy and how, exactly, Barack Obama would engage in talks with Iran. And while that may well happen this Saturday, winning the state's Democratic caucuses has a lot more to do with courting the poor Hispanics that bus the hotel restaurants, the unions that represent them - and the other 1,754 caucuses across the state that will be nowhere near the Vegas strip...