CAMBRIDGE — Red napkin pyramids graced white plates in a dining area in MIT’s Stata Center, as students wandered in to find handwritten place cards bearing their names. Women wore simple dresses and flats, or skirts and blouses with pumps. Men wore crisp shirts and ties, though some sported sneakers and white socks with khakis.
Amid world-renowned computer science and artificial intelligence labs, about 50 students dressed in their professional best for a different kind of lesson: etiquette for a business dinner.
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Where was the Charm when MIT gave a wink and a nod to Prosecutorial Misconduct...causing a brilliant young man to end his own life? huh? HUH!?
A thief got caught, and was going to get punished.
Can't stand the time, don't do the crime.
All the lefties love this guy cause he was going to "steal from the rich and give to the poor"....
But a rose by any other name is still a THIEF
Stuff & Nonsense @ MIT.
I think YankeeGreenUSA might be able to use a course in manners.
Why!? Because you're on the Hangin' Posse? Most people love tough justice...until it's used on them. My problem with Aaron Schwartz's case is the Prosecutorial Misconduct the Feds used in persecuting a person with documented in-patient psych. treatment. Fifty Years? For some effete Professor of Gagetology's bruised ego? (and wallet) That's JUSTICE!? I may be rude but will never be as distasteful as U.S. Atty. Cruz & her pack of Crackers.
One of the instructor's "don'ts" was "don’t put your cell phone on the table." The girl in the picture reading the place setting chart is doing just that. She seems not to understand that, at its core, manners are about showing respect for the person you're interacting with by actually giving them your attention. Multi-tasking and manners are incompatible.