On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Faustine wrote:
> Great points, but consider the example "Harvard University." People are
> willing to pay a premium to be associated with it regardless of the academic
> worth of the individual programs in the eyes of specialists. A lot of students
> are after the cachet and
At 10:17 AM 12/3/01 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>As soon as people tumble to the fact that "Tom Clancy" has sold his
>nym/reputation to some hack writer, that is, let them put his name on
>their words, then the reputation of "Tom Clancy" falls.
I was coming to that conclusion thanks to the public
exc
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Tim May wrote:
> By the way, a topic I talked about a month or two ago, the bogus nature
> of the _Economics_ prize, has been in the news. Some of the descendants
> of the Nobel family want the Economics prize to have no connection to
> the name "Nobel."
>
> Their claim is tha
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Tim May wrote:
> This is "the reputation of a reputation."
>
> As soon as people tumble to the fact that "Tom Clancy" has sold his
> nym/reputation to some hack writer, that is, let them put his name on
> their words, then the reputation of "Tom Clancy" falls.
>
> Nothing new
On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 02:22 PM, Duncan Frissell wrote:
>
> Special agents should read the Economist in addition to NLECTC Law
> Enforcement & Corrections Technology News Summary
> http://www.nlectc.org/.
>
>
> http://WWW.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=S%26%2BX%28%2FQ%21%3B%26
From: "Michael Motyka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Minimizing the risk of individuals within the organization is
> not equivalent to optimizing the organization's performance.
Good one. Reminds me of the "nobody got fired for buying IBM" phrase I read
a few years ago.
Mark
"...Someone once remarked that the most unimaginitive, laziest Harvard
graduate students at the bottom of their class tend to end up at the IMF
and UN. Sort of sinkholes of mediocrity. Oh well! ~Faustine."
Luckily we now have 'open source' AP to take out the ones that get to be
president.Did y
At 03:39 PM 12/3/01 -0500, Faustine wrote:
>Great points, but consider the example "Harvard University." People are
>willing to pay a premium to be associated with it regardless of the academic
>worth of the individual programs in the eyes of specialists. A lot of students
>are after the cachet an
Faustine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Tim wrote:
>
>>This is "the reputation of a reputation."
>Ridiculous how so many employers put such stock in a word on a piece of
paper
>too--pure credentialism. How ironic when you contrast that with the
fact that
>the great Herman Kahn didn't have a PhD. I wonder wh
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Tim wrote:
>This is "the reputation of a reputation."
>As soon as people tumble to the fact that "Tom Clancy" has sold his
>nym/reputation to some hack writer, that is, let them put his name on
>their words, then the reputation of "Tom Clancy" fal
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