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...opposing coaches really alter their strategy when she's on the field...
...ultimately, the continuing strife led the council to alter radically its bureaucratic structure in what seemed a desperate attempt to set its house in order and to put service ahead of scandal...
Philip Roth makes readers skeptical of his new novel from the outset. "For legal reasons," he says in the preface, "I have had to alter a number of facts in this book." In the preface, Roth the author is already mixing it up with Roth the character, confusing what is real and what is fictional, what is altered and what is hallucinatory. Operation Shylock: A Confession plays a steady game of doubled identities and Roth the author supports the truth of the volume "out of uniform," so to speak, in interviews where he claims again that the whole thing...
...Masson prevails, enough of what Malcolm said about him has been validated to brand him forever as a reckless egomaniac, philanderer and self- promoter who dared to impugn the integrity of Freud, the demigod of his former field. If Malcolm wins, it will be despite her readiness to alter facts in service of her vision of truth. She admitted cleaning up and clarifying Masson's prose, which is common journalistic practice. She also combined remarks made months apart, in different circumstances and on different coasts, into a single monologue -- which is not common practice at all. She felt entitled...
...status quo would remain in place. The plan also makes Dean Buell look good while not creating any more work for his tenured colleagues in terms of their actually doing some of the evaluation of TFs--and of students, for that matter--themselves. Dean Buell, in his alter ego as Prof. Buell, is already immune to such criticism by being the most attentive and involved of teachers, which I suspect is why he took the job of dean in the first place...