Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under Harvard's present system, tenure decisions are consigned to ad hoc committees of experts from outside the University. This archaic process excludes innovative scholarship, devalues teaching skills and drives young talent to other schools....Rudenstine should consider installing a tenure track. At the very least, he should abolish the ad hocs...
...most interesting e-mails I received had to do with the Sports section. One reader was puzzled by The Crimson's repeated use of the rather archaic term "cagers" in headlines about the basketball team. Why not "Hoops," he suggested, or "B-Ball?" (A few other readers I queried on the topic said that they had never heard the term "Cagers" used in any other place, but had come to expect that The Crimson was referring to basketball...
...shaped a radical restructuring of the team and in the process made it a key component in revitalizing Detroit, one of America's most distressed major cities. He first fired head coach Wayne Fontes and installed former San Diego Chargers coach Bobby Ross. He also revamped the Lions' archaic ticketing policy, bolstered the team's marketing campaign, launched a Website and started weekly radio and TV shows that air during the season. "We really needed a face-lift," he says. "We're in the entertainment business. It's all marketing and customer satisfaction...
...Centuries"). John Hogue, a self-styled "Nostradamian," has edited a recently published version of the work entitled Nostradamus: The Complete Prophesies. Hogue fancies himself something of a prophet in his own right and his commentaries give new meaning to the term "exegesis." Nonetheless, he does reproduce the original, archaic French text, so I sat down with his volume to discover what all the clamor was about...
Finally, Sawano consistently holds Diana up to the archaic model of "duty and sacrifice" which she claimed that Diana lacked but which Queen Elizabeth and Princess Anne exemplify. Duty to whom? The royal family, entrenched in their notions of duty, have successfully isolated themselves from the British public, to whom their duty ostensibly lies. This fact is as true today it was during World War II. Of course, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Anne do the requisite charities. But do they touch people, both physically and emotionally the way that Diana did? Unlike her royal counterparts, Diana touched people with leprosy...