Word: academicability
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Neil L. Rudenstine earned about $290,000 as president of Harvard during the '97-'98 academic year, a figure nearly $100,000 less than the median salary of comparable university presidents, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported this week.
Indeed, while some presidents saw increases in their salaries up to 25 percent during the span of one academic year, Rudenstine's salary has increased an average of 1.05 percent each year since 1993.
Given a potentially world-changing new technology, what does your modern-day greedy capitalist do? Build a theme park! That Barnumesque observation (a tad dated in this age of tech multibillionaires) isn't the only thing that's overfamiliar in this dull time-travel tale from the author of Jurassic...
LET THERE BE LIGHT There is good news for families on both sides of the church-state divide. A broad coalition of religious, educational and civil-liberties groups agreed last week to encourage schools to make study about the Bible "an important part of a complete education." Log in at...
"The program is special because [the Weissmans] encourage you to do things outside of your academic field in a new context," Waters says. "There's an enormous difference between what you learn from [Stone Professor of International Trade] Jeffrey D. Sachs ['76] and what you learn that these organizations are...