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...Education is always important,” Litinsky said. “There are some things that you can teach and some things that you can’t. Business is comprised of both...
...toward a situation where we speak only one language." Come on! If that one language were French, Chirac would call it the best thing that could happen. As usual, he thinks that the only problems in the world are caused by Britain and its former colony, the U.S. I teach English in France, and the biggest obstacle to the children's learning the language is the general French attitude toward it. It's a pity that France feels it is in such danger. Other countries, like the Netherlands, Denmark and Japan, which are perhaps more secure, just get on with...
...models. Currently, prefects are not allowed to be with their freshmen at a party at which alcohol is present. This is a misguided and ultimately harmful policy. W1ithout this policy, first-years who would drink anyway, and possibly engage in dangerous drinking, could have an older, responsible student to teach them safe party habits...
...prudent business move in our increasingly globalized world and outsource sucking. Set up a Yale in Malaysia, pay your professors in grams of lint and watch the profit margins soar. Yale might even be able to compete with Harvard’s endowment, but only if it could teach its “students” to sew knock-off Harvard hoodies on the side. In any case, Yalies currently huddled behind New Haven’s neo-gothic would end up at the same place: working the milkshake machine at that Dairy Queen...
...thing that discourages openness and courtesy to strangers" ... Fran Lebowitz, who made her mark as a caustic social critic with Metropolitan Life (1978), also feels that things are getting worse rather than better. "I don't think people have manners," she says. "I don't think people teach their children manners. I think boorishness is the order of the day. There has been a return to convention, but that's all nostalgia." --TIME...