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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, July 30, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes july 1985 grads warned their learning worthless in the real world Boston a youve survived High College and maybe even graduate what a Lovely forget everything youve its worthless in the real or so says Harvard business school professor John who recently wrote an open letter to the nations graduates with the dire message that the implicit lessons of the classroom can ruin a school teaches you some lessons about work that Are just wrong for survival on the said author of seven books on organizational be prepared for some for school teaches students that Success comes from passing objective and it emphasizes the individual instead of the Kotter school rarely requires students to Lead or direct and it conveys the message that a promotion is due every Success in school comes from focusing on books and Kotter and students can get top grades without Ever talking with a professor or a in work after graduation is something altogether he getting others to leading coping with Complex Power and influence and people problems that at the heart of a lot of jobs especially the kind of Well paying jobs that i know youd like to have Kotter wrote in his open sent to newspapers across the this is not to suggest that the world of work is a bad he it is just different from what you Are used and there Are a whole new set of skills you need to Kotter said the first new lesson to learn is that work Means operating in a web of relationships with your your and the people who work under pay who Are the people above me what Are their concerns and pressures who Are the people below me what Are they trying to achieve for thinking about these things comes its a personality trait that goes Way Back to Early child Hood Kotter said in a Telephone interview from his Cambridge for others of that int Kotter said graduates also must learn How to develop a Power that will sound to a lot of Young people fairly Nefa he to be Able to get things you need a Power base to help you influence a Power base of knowledge about the company and its a Power base that comes from a Good a Good track record and clearcut Kotter said most graduates pick up the lessons of the workplace the hard through but some never learn and become bitter and the cynics of the world Are almost always former natives who got the Rug pulled out from under he schools could go a Long Way in training graduates for the real world of said other skills besides subtraction and Reading and must be he if enough people beat enough maybe something will when you ask the time of Day in Southwest Indiana smile a a week of hearings on Southwest Indiana confusing and controversial time zones produced agreement on Only one Point no one wants to live near a time zone those who have to juggle the on hour difference be tween Eastern and Central times complained eloquently that it disrupts almost every aspect of their those who live a comfortable distance from the time Border argued passionately against having it moved into their its a very difficult said Joanne the Federal hearing officer sent by the department of transportation to gather Public opinion on a proposal to shift Southwest Indiana and surrounding parts of Illinois and Kentucky to Eastern supporters say the present split puts the area out of step with the rest of which is on opponents say the area is More geographically oriented to the Central time zone areas of Illinois and the debate was summarized by two speakers at a hear ing thursday night in let us join the rest of the urged Victor As far Asim the rest of the state is out of countered Phillip most of the arguments boiled Down to a simple dislike for the idea of having to contend with two different an inevitable problem wherever the Border is Petrie there will always be problems and people who Are going to be she Petrie said she was at the level of emotion generated by the Many people got mad and turned red in the face while arguing their one woman broke Down and the audience cheered and about 700 residents of Southwest Southeast Illinois and Western Kentucky attended the and about sent comments by those in favor of the switch tended to make a practical Petrie citing the economic consequences brought on by the difficulty of conducting business on different those who want the time left As it is made a More emotional she expressing fear of the same disruption now experienced by those along the present time a Clear majority of speakers at the 10 hearings opposed any time change for the the transportation which is authorized to adjust time zones in the interest of will do what Ever it decides is Best for the Region As a she a decision will be made by transportation Secretary Eliza Beth Dole by and any change would take effect 27 when the nation goes off Daylight saving Philadelphia Row House fire kills 4 boys Philadelphia a fire swept through a Row House killing four but two adults and two other children managed to authorities three of the bodies were found huddled on a mattress in a rear bedroom on the second with the oldest boy on top of the younger two in a somewhat protective Posi fire department John Quinn the fourth body was found in a front bedroom of the two Story the boys ranged in age from 2 to 9 the which started on the first was reported just before 9 and was brought under control within 25 Quinn the cause was not the two an infant and a 7yearold boy escaped from a second Story window by jumps onto an which broke their fall into shrubs in the said James a 64yearold the Man tried unsuccessfully to climb Back up the Awn ing and get into the but was turned Back by the heavy Blakeney another Terrance said he was in his Kitchen when he heard my father kicked in the Back but we realized we  get through the Kitchen because of the he i grabbed a ladder and tried to get in the Back win Dows but Harris every time we opened a the smoke came it was too hot to go it was real the survivors were taken to Germantown where they were admitted with smoke inhalation and Hospital spokeswoman Rebecca Morris the Jerry and Charlotte were in the intensive care she the surviving James and 4monthold Jerron were transferred to Christophers Hospital for children and were in guarded condition with Burns and smoke the Hospital the dead were tentatively identified As Jerry Michael Lee and Jamar the Philadelphia medical examiners office fire officials did not know the exact relationships of the but said All were stateside two Young family Friend drown in abandoned Quarry a two Young Sisters drowned in an abandoned Rock Quarry during a weekend family and a Friend of the family also drowned while trying to save authorities said Sharon and her both of were wading in shallow water in the Quarry when they apparently went Over a drop off saturday Willie a Friend of their jumped in after in trying to get the two girls Back to it have pulled him and they All said Bud Joliet fire department battalion swimming is forbidden at the he adding that several people have drowned there in the past 10 Maryland priest will change his title from father to dad a a 44yearold roman Catholic priest is hoping his title of father will take on a special meaning later this the Ronald a priest since said he expects the paper work permitting him to adopt Matt to be completed before the end of the if his application is he will join a Small num Ber of Catholic clergymen who have adopted the two have been living together since Belschner be friended the youth after he had troubles with a Foster Asp a agents raid cockfight in basement of grocery new York a authorities raided a cockfight in the basement of a Small arresting 26 an Anima Protection group police and agents of the american society for the prevention of cruelty to animals walked into Pedros Bodega in the Sunset Park neighbourhood of Brooklyn just As one rooster had entered a ring in the basement in preparation for a said Asp a spokeswoman Madeline Magazine says Castro will get million for writing 3 books new York a cuban president Fidel Castro has signed a million Deal with the publishing firm of Simon and schuster to write three according to the latest Issue of news and world the weekly news Magazine quoted publishing sources which it did not identify As saying the first Book would be on the failure of the Magazine said the second Book would Deal with the third world and the failure of it said no details were available on the topic of the third judge sees through gives defendant jail sentence los Angeles a a defendant in a traffic Case wound up behind bars when he played a game of musical identities with the judge and according to court Steven appeared in san Fernando municipal court and claimed to be his own Michael a lawyer appearing for the defendant because the defendant is in England on business and requests a Sheridan does not have such a judge Michael Luros became suspicious because the Man wore rumpled had no business card and showed some confusion Over Legal Sheridan then claimed to be Michael a Law yer who Moon lighted As a movie who found Sheridan in contempt of or dered him to spend the next five Days in wedding in front of billboard far from Normal in a for a Community named nor the wedding of Marcy Sparks and Douglas Kline was anything but the nuptials took place in front of a billboard in this Central Illinois Community As part of a radio station and most of the audience didst even know the the event was recorded by two television stations and attended by about 150 people standing or driving by and Many wearing snorts and the couple from nearby Bloomington took advantage of an offer by win qom to get married at the base of a Beer where the station has been broadcasting from its studio in the  
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