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...ending their careers, absolutely must do: 10-page reappointment forms, written exams, blood tests, physicals. Every hospital we work in, every HMO we sign up with does this too. Every year. Every 10 years we have to take our boards again. (Imagine if lawyers had to pass the bar exam every decade until they quit.) And there are yearly federal and state licensures and safety exams, fire exams, infection-control exams, malpractice-insurance exams, queries about crimes we're assumed to have committed and disabilities we must prove we have not developed...
...recession-pinched businesses are now targeting students through a new e-mail list launched by student-run business Unofficial Tours. The e-mail list, which went live on Monday at www.harvardbargainblast.com, is a biweekly newsletter touting exclusive offers for Harvard students from businesses like the bar Tommy Doyle’s and the local hamburger chain b.good. As extra incentive to sign up, the first 100 people to subscribe will receive automatic gift certificates to b.good, burrito chain Qdoba, or the restaurant Grendel’s Den. All who sign up are entered to win prizes ranging from...
...arranging a precise time to meet at the computer to catch up on weeks of activity. I’m talking about the casual hello. The quickie. The in-and-out, sometimes lasting just seconds. Soon everyone will have a laptop with a built-in camera, meaning my Gchat bar will be full of video icons and no more of those outdated dots. And who doesn’t like to check themselves out? Let’s be real. You have the big box with your brother/lover/Thai pen pal/parole officer, but then you have that smaller...
...problems of sexual violence and gender inequality cannot be solved unless a higher bar is set for manhood. Many men already care about gender equality and nonviolence, but not enough of them speak up against joking references to rape or against other behavior that is demeaning to women. Too many men have stood by silently as a peer told a joke about domestic abuse; too many have failed to confront a friend known to sexually exploit women; too many have excused media that favorably depicts sexual violence as entertainment...
...week on research and writing compared to 9.7 hours for men. This difference adds up to men spending about two more full work-weeks a year writing than women do. That can make a big difference at a time when schools' increased reliance on adjunct professors is pushing the bar for promotion higher, requiring tenure hopefuls to publish more than ever. "What men and women value differs slightly," says MLA executive director Rosemary Feal. "Men align the way they spend their time on the activities that are most readily rewarded." (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...