Word: authorly
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...Carole S. Fungaroli, an English professor at Georgetown University and the author of Traditional Degrees for Non-Traditional Students, has personally experienced the effect of a big-name school--and it seems little to do with the actual education...
During the 40-minute lecture, Dunn quoted from Kafka and Vladimir Nabokov as well as children's authors like Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis and J. K. Rowling, author of the popular Harry Potter books...
...Everybody knows the Harvard name, and only some people know the Radcliffe name," says Bundles, a journalist and author in Washington. "But the people who know the Radcliffe name truly respect it and know its value...
...send those who are counted among that four percent to private charities is to treat them as beggars rather than citizens. We may not need a complete cradle-to-grave welfare state, but we do need social programs to be motivated by something other than noblesse oblige. As author Mickey Kaus noted in a New York Times commentary earlier this year, the Medicare program is not charity, and neither is the minimum wage...
...women with 12 or more years of education were correct 71% of the time--far more than less-educated women, whose accuracy rate was 43%. More puzzling: the most accurate predictors were women who relied on dreams or gut feelings, not physical signals. Still, says Johns Hopkins study co-author Janet DiPietro, none of the above dare "run out and paint the nursery pink or blue...