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Jun 1, 2003

Editorial: Historical Awareness

This summer issue of Comment contains several pieces with an historical slant. Some of our readers will delight in this; others will snort along with car maker Henry Ford, who in 1916 famously remarked that "history is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want...

Jun 1, 2003

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Creation, Consumption, Conservation, and Choice

Among the many strange things that have befallen Venice, she has had the good fortune to become the object of passion to a man of splendid genius, who has made her his own and in doing so has made her the world's. —Henry JamesJohn Ruskin's best-known work remains The...

Jun 1, 2003

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Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design by Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, and Barbara Winslow (Taunton Press, 2002, 288 pp, US $34.95) In 1977, a group of authors led by Christopher Alexander published the following in their book A Pattern Language:...

Jun 1, 2003

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The Craft of Machine Design

Stupid car!I've said that (or maybe something a little less tame) many times in my life. With regular care, a good car gives you faithful service for many years. It is that one cold winter morning when your car decides to take a day off without your permission that...

Mar 1, 2003

Editorial: Making our Values Explicit

In the 60th anniversary issue of the magazine Training + Development (January 2003), the editors write: "The field that we serve has changed over six decades, but never as dramatically as in the past three years. . . . What do leading thinkers in our field make of the...

Mar 1, 2003

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Jubilee on the Job

To my surprise I found out that to celebrate a jubilee can be dangerous as well as exciting, if you take it seriously. For Queen Elizabeth II to reign for 50 years and go on tour in Canada, and for CBC Television to tout up 50 years of programming and hold an...

Mar 1, 2003

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Guilds from the Dot-com Ashes?

Remember the talk that preceded the dot-com bust? You recall those predictions about an economic model in which almost every worker was a free agent, running Me Inc., making a profitable living from orders that somehow would magically appear in e-mail in-boxes through...