(If so, you should go back to college and take the seminar, "Huge Piles of Dead People: The Subtle Art of the Political Metaphor").. Tenet was a soft-spoken analyst a coward, technically rarely given to outbursts.
I arranged with the Landmark Education Forum to take the seminar in London with Sophie McLean, a charismatic 47 year old French Moroccan, self-proclaimed to have once been a socialite, jet-setting from party to party until she too, at age 33, took the Landmark course and realized she wanted "to contribute to society".
Because the undergraduates took the seminar in their first semester of college, they had not yet declared a major.
In other words, after taking over the seminar committee, I was better able to deflect requests to take on other tasks that I didn't have the time or interest in doing.
The undergraduates who take the advanced seminar are mostly pre-medical, but they include some planning to attend graduate school rather than medical school, and the graduate students who take the course are headed for doctorates or master's degrees in subjects that include epidemiology and public health, immunobiology, and anthropology.
Isabelle Wijangco, who graduated from Stanford last year with a degree in human biology, is among those who took the Meaning of Life seminar in Sophomore College and said the course is part of what spurred her to want to focus on global women's health issues when she attends medical school.
The series of eight seminars taking the recruitment message to women around the country comes after government figures revealed women still account for only one third of the 30,000 national and regional public appointments.
Or as Tolstoy would have put it in "Anna Karenina," if he'd had the benefit of taking this seminar: "Morphogenetically balanced families are all alike in their governing energy fields; morphogenetically unbalanced families, however, have governing energy fields that radiate on decidedly unique wavelengths".
The number of jobless professionals taking these seminars at the work-force center — one of 34 statewide — has doubled in a year, to 210 a month.
