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Week of 13 November 1998 |
Vol. II, No. 14 |
In the News
Is an MBA worth the time and money? "Fifteen years ago an MBA was a novelty; today it opens doors to big jobs," responds Don Brezinski, associate director of corporate relations at the BU School of Management, in the October 25 Boston Globe. "The executive want ads tell the whole story. Most say MBA preferred," he says. "The MBA has never been more valuable, which accounts for an increased enrollment in our program." Brezinski mentions a BU MBA who recently pulled down a $180,000 starting salary at an investment banking firm.
Iran's attempt to build a Muslim city on a hill has often provoked U.S. antipathy, but it has proved more immediately costly to the country's Baha'i community. The cost continues, even while Iran softens its anti-American stance. Farhang Mehr, a CAS professor emeritus of international relations, stresses in a November 3 Philadelphia Inquirer story Iran's desire "to change its image abroad." Reported renewed persecution of Baha'is -- whose faith mingles elements of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism -- "is not a concerted effort by the government," Mehr says, "but mainly of groups who want to use Baha' is as scapegoats." Mehr himself fled Iran shortly after the 1979 revolution.
"He was brave and craggy," maintains CAS Professor of Humanities Christopher Ricks, "the only heir of D. H. Lawrence in poetry." Ricks eulogizes Britain's late poet laureate Ted Hughes in the October 30 Boston Globe. Hughes was noted for poems powered by harsh images of birds of prey and other natural forces that seem more real than the human world. "The whole Lawrence world, the novels as well as the poems, is in Hughes's work. 'The Thought-Fox,' 'Hawks Roosting': these are wonderful poems," Ricks says.
Robert Pinsky is singing the book electric. "We've invented ways of turning a very small space into a very large world," says the CAS English professor and U.S. poet laureate, who was on hand for the formal launch of the Rocket eBook recently. "It seems really appropriate that my Rocket eBook had Alice in Wonderland loaded into it," he adds, referring to the story's portentous rabbit hole beckoning to a virtual world. Pinsky was quoted (appropriately) online in a Wired magazine news service story dated October 23.
School officials in a New Hampshire community were attempting to defuse parental anger recently about a "time-out room" in their elementary school. While educators portray such isolating areas not as punitive but as benign places to pacify overly disruptive students, SED Education Professor John Cheffers inserts a cautionary note. "I must confess some teachers see [such rooms] as a punishment. When that happens, it is unfortunate," Cheffers says in the Boston Herald on October 31. "The teachers may not mean to be vindictive, but they become known as werewolves, imprisoners, and people who want to punish children."
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