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...Lausberg ’08, who lives in the Currier Seven Man, one of the suites listed as having “super” status by the UC, reports that with the new UC funding initiative, suite members and their guests have noticed a shift in the quality of their social lives...
...opposed to managers, are expected to have a broad vision of their institution, a set of ambitious but manageable goals, the skill to choose and trust lead staff members, the capacity to devise and implement strategies that allow them to advance toward their goals, and the agility to shift course when doing so seems necessary. In an authoritarian regime or in a corporation that is organized hierarchically, leaders can often proceed quite quickly and with relatively little regard for the beliefs and feelings of others in their organization. On occasion, such a peremptory approach is even essential. In the United...
...drumming as a learning experience and encourages others to try it regardless of their background. “Everyone should try drumming. Drumming is just good for you, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. And there’s a lot you can learn from it. Drumming has helped me to shift my perspective from trying to advance myself and my own agenda to trying to live in balance with the rhythms that other people have. All of us exist in different ways. The thing to do is not to try to force everyone to follow the same beat...
...prerogative of and, more, the duty of a university president to shift a university’s focus when the demands of the era require it. After all, Harvard, like most other schools founded in colonial days, was established primarily as a training institute for clergy. Reform has come only in battles against the wishes of the entrenched interests of the time. Harvard’s greatest leaps of progress have come when its presidents have fought to modernize the University and redefine its role in accordance with the progressive goals of their respective eras...
...getting the rust out of the engine a little bit,” he said. “We’ve only sailed a couple times this season. We haven’t done speed racing that much this season, so it was kind of like a gear shift into the type of boats we were sailing.” Speed wasn’t a problem in the sixth race for either team. Both divisions won, ending the day with twin runs of top-half finishes. Johnson and Simon didn’t place lower than eighth...