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...went to the Greenhouse,” confessed Annie Wang ’11. Whether participants secretly binged in the Barker Center cafe or used the event to appreciate religion until hallucinations of chickwiches danced before their eyes, the HIS Fast-a-thon did teach at least one valuable lesson: going a day without HUDS is always rewarding...
...Watching these shows imparts a valuable lesson about decoding and participating in a social world: We all are constantly creating narratives for ourselves. Steven Berlin Johnson observed the cognitive value of reality TV in his book Everything Bad is Good For You: “As each show discloses its rules and conventions, and each participant reveals his or her personality traits and background, the intrigue in watching comes from figuring out how the participants should best navigate the environment that’s been created for them.” Watch closely, watch often, and patterns start to emerge...
...tutored in the art of beguilement, the seductive talent of getting looked at. (These kids wouldn't be on screen if someone hadn't noticed them and said, "You oughta be in pictures.") They have been watched, and aware they're being watched, since grade school. That's a lesson that's hard to unlearn...
...Seidel: how universities negotiate building student housing with the surrounding community.“It’s pretty clear the University needs to be working with the council,” Seidel says. “I fully expect that Harvard understands that and has learned that lesson over the years.”—Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu
...Franklin Roosevelt's experience as governor of New York that gave him the power to inspire in some of the nation's darkest hours? Or was that gift a distillate of his dauntless battle with polio? To a keen student of human nature, all of life offers lessons in how to lead, inspire and endure. Lincoln's ability to apply useful lessons from his motley experiences was among his most striking traits. When Ulysses Grant explained his grand strategy to defeat Lee by attacking on multiple fronts, Lincoln immediately thought of a lesson in joint operations learned years earlier...