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April 29, 2007

MIT: Where are your Values?

I've had a love/hate relationship with higher education for most of my life. There are many things about the collegiate and university community that give us our greatest, best hope for the future. But there are also things about the...

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April 5, 2007

Saying No

One of the things I've always admired about top-notch consulting firms is their ability to say no. When the customer has the checkbook out, when it would be easy to take a few dollars and deliver something that wouldn't work...

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April 4, 2007

I'm not Warming up to Global Warming

Ok, I'm trying. Really I am. For the last week or two I've listened to several hours of a prominent physicist explain Global Warming to me. I love The Teaching Company, and this is probably the 10th series of college-level...

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