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...postmortem of the Oct. 3 battle that left 18 U.S. Army Rangers dead and 75 wounded has revealed that General Mohammed Farrah Aidid's loyalists used an ancient method to warn their comrades of the Rangers' attack -- they beat wooden sticks on drums, only in this case the drums were empty 50-gal. oil barrels. Followers of Aidid positioned at the Mogadishu airport began drumming when they saw the Rangers' helicopters take off, and as the message was heard, it was carried through the town by the same means...
...dean's appearance at Yale--a news-worthyevent in itself, because McArthur rarely speaksin public--was all the more unusual because of thenature of the event. Here was arguably the mostpowerful leader in business education--a pioneerof the case study method--inviting M.B.A. studentsat a top competitor to critique Harvard's program...
Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield's recent testimony in support of the Colorado constitutional amendment which ensures that no Colorado citizen will have a special claim on the state by virtue of his preferred method of sexual gratification has, quite predictably, stirred up quite a bit of uproar among the usual parties. It seems that the idea that a Harvard professor might say something sensible about public policy (a rare enough occurrence, to be sure) is simply too much for Harvard's left wing to bear...
Sources familiar with the proposal said it includes plans for a significant restructuring of the first-year curriculum, a shift from a two-semester calendar to a trimester-based system, and a decreased emphasis on the school's trademark case-study method of instruction...
...addition, the proposal suggests a reducedemphasis on the case-based method of instructionin favor of more project-based teaching...