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Summers elicited frequent laughter and received a standing ovation at the conclusion of the meeting, most of which addressed broad themes in higher education...
...book jacket photo of the author suggests that Auslander marks a break from the Jewish writer prototype. Roth and Allen are—like Kafka was before them—flesh-and-blood definitions of the Yiddish “oysgedart” (emaciated). The broad-shouldered Auslander, by contrast, looks like the kind of guy who could hold his own in a bar-fight...
Finally, faculty are concerned about proposed divisional appointments. The idea is to set up new hiring committees for broad academic divisions within FAS, such as the humanities. These committees would look for talented academics individual departments might pass over because their work is interdisciplinary. Proponents have also tried to sell it as a way to increase female and minority hiring...
Responding to a question about his now-infamous January remarks on women in science at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Summers outlined a broad four-point agenda to alleviate the pressures faced by faculty members with young families...
...sticking point in negotiations between the Shiite and the Kurdish lists has been less over the makeup of the executive branch than over broad guarantees demanded by the Kurds for secularism and adherence to the TAL (which is rejected, in principle, by Sistani, among others) - and more importantly, over Kurdish separatist demands. The Kurds are using the kingmaker status granted them by the TAL to demand not only that they maintain the autonomy they have enjoyed for over a decade under the protection of the Allied ?no-fly? zone, but also that their domain be extended to include the fiercely...