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...alone does not dictate that a professor should be encouraged to retire. While we enthusiastically urge FAS to adopt this practice we would strongly caution department heads to base their use of such incentives solely on the criteria of a professor's abilities. Further, if the Faculty does take this important step to promote appropriate faculty turnover, we would like to see an expanded role for the many luminaries who currently hold and will hold emeriti status...
Back in 1938, a Japanese monk, noting that it took China three centuries to adopt Buddhism from India, said introducing it in America would be like holding a lotus to a rock and waiting for it to take root. It has been only 60 years, and at least one authority, Columbia professor Robert Thurman, states grimly that as far as he is concerned, a true, indigenous Buddhism doesn't yet exist here. But others are convinced that for the first time, American Buddhism may be strong enough not only to withstand the distortions of celebrity but also to attract...
Perhaps because of this, Malick's colleagues tend to adopt a cheerfully reassuring tone when answering reporters' questions, which inevitably boil down to more polite versions of, Isn't he a bit, well, loony? "He's very mysterious, very private, but it's not like he's crazy. He's a lovely and charming man who just wants to keep things to himself," says Laura Ziskin, president of Fox 2000, the division of 20th Century Fox that is financing The Thin Red Line's $50 million to $60 million budget. "He's fun. He's not reclusive or dark...
Harvard wants to be a championship team this year. To live up to its potential, the Crimson needs to adopt the warrior's mentality. When the opponent is vulnerable, finish...
Implicit in the staff's opinion is the endorsement of a disturbing brand of gender and racial determinism--the editors adopt the view that race-based and sex-based characteristics set up virtually impenetrable barriers to understanding and identification, making it impossible for individuals to represent adeptly those of different backgrounds...