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...rivalries and enmities have taught me a least a modicum of understanding and accountability through the successes and failings of others in our lives. I have learned to operate in a delicately balanced world, as a leader and follower, teacher and student, coxswain and crew, and I think that lesson has been shared by many others in the Class of 2005. We are no longer be the same 1600 uncompromising big fish who arrived here September 1st, 2001, but now, accompanied by a few of life’s bruises and scrapes, we are better prepared to create for ourselves...
Having learned its lesson with salad bars, Wendy's is trying to give consumers "choices along the whole continuum of health," Schuessler says. But he isn't willing to go all out in pursuit of the bad-boy burger. (Although the Classic Triple features three-quarters of a pound of beef.) "Every company has to ask themselves, Are you going to be relevant to the consumer tomorrow...
Before I learned this lesson as a reporter, I learned it at Harvard. My undergraduate education taught me that facts are indispensable but originality lies in finding the holes between them. The best classes I took placed a premium on work that took a new approach to an old question. Instead of asking why the French Revolution happened, I was taught to ask why an English revolution did not. The question was inspired by what I did not know, not what I did. Answering it required a different level of analysis and originality. Before you can answer a provoking question...
...project manager at WFP headquarters in Rome. "We've turned the concept on its head by addressing the urgency and immediacy of a real crisis situation." In its first six weeks, the game has been downloaded-for free-more than 800,000 times at food-force.com The site includes lesson plans for teachers and background info on the fictional Food Force aid workers, like a mustachioed Brazilian who, his bio reveals, joined 15 years ago after reading about the WFP's work on its website. After a gamer pointed out that the Web barely existed in 1990, the Brazilian replied diplomatically...
...lesson, regardless of DePodesta’s intent: memories are made after...