A study in shirking (and contrasts)
by Jamie Snashall on May 6, 2008 in Befuddled Foreigner
As the semester draws to a conclusion, it’s probably about time that I answer the clamour of voices from home (well, ok, maybe one or two) who have asked me how you the workload for a Master’s degree that’s done and dusted in just a year. Let me defer to a number of people, all of whom are better qualified than I to answer.
One colleague of mine, a long-serving military man, has the following credo:
It’s only a lot of reading if you do it all.
On that topic, this recent article from the Citizen is well worth reading.
Or former five star general and US President Dwight Eisenhower, who attended the Army’s Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in the 1920s. A biography by Geoffrey Perret records Ike’s view of his course:
Everyone who stayed with the course, in fact, graduated. It was like being at Harvard – people dropped out, but nobody flunked out.
Thoughts on Mugabe - A side note on Zimbabwe
by Wangari Kebuchi on May 3, 2008 in Blog, Kenya Crisis
It may be clear to the world that Mugabe has to be removed from office, but we must not assume that this clarity is shared by a large proportion of Zimbabweans in Zimbabwe. The winds of change are sweeping across the Zimbabwean landscape but the main question is: Does Zimbabwe have its sails up? Read more
Loving the Unloved: A Brief Tour of Harvard’s Modern Architectural Gems
by Patrick Thrasher on May 1, 2008 in Culture
Go on. Say it. I won’t judge. You hate Peabody Terrace. You think it’s ugly. It’s okay - you’re not alone. I don’t think I’ve met a single person in Cambridge, excluding architects, who likes those buildings.
