Word: americanizing
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Harvard professors are currently the highest paid in the country, according to a recent report by the American Association of University Professors, with an average salary of $192,600 per year. In the 2009 fiscal year, FAS spent $147.8 million on all faculty salaries, according to the Dean’s Annual Report...
...Tenderfoot” has a specific focus on technology and atomization of American culture. The title implies (and then laments) newbies in a world in which humans have become estranged by technological individualism and isolation. It’s both a diatribe and glorification of post-modernism. Damn, Lampoon. So deep...
...Wall Street or to finance. No one argued this an unfit or unworthy domain for Rhodes Scholars; it was simply on few scholars’ radar. And those who did make such a choice, including myself, usually did so after beginning a different career. Only three of the 320 American Rhodes Scholars in the ’70s went directly into business from Oxford; by the late ’80s the number grew to that many each year. And, recently, more than twice as many entered that field in just one year as did in the entire decade...
Elliot F. Gerson ’74 is American secretary of the Rhodes Trust and executive vice president of the Aspen Institute. A version of this article previously appeared in the Washington Post...
...more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to a pledge that they'll start returning home in 2011. But the President's West Point speech Dec. 1 was mute on his plans for the growing Afghan army, which remains the best - some would say only - way to bring home American personnel. His vagueness on the question of increasing the Afghan forces was understandable: the U.S. and its allies have already boosted target troop levels for the Afghan army four times, and the U.S. commander there, General Stanley McChrystal, wants the target number doubled yet again...