Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though most of us think of the Head of the Charles as just an excuse to invite a few people over and have a big party, there is going to be a crew race on Sunday--for those sober enough to catch...
Especially since, after the loss, the downtrodden defenders had to catch that Red! Shuttle Bus! back to the Quad...
...sanest way for the U.S. Air Force Academy to acknowledge the 25th anniversary of Catch-22 would be to ask the author to come celebrate on campus. But wouldn't that be by definition insane? Never mind. When it actually wants to do something, the military just plows ahead. Which is how Joseph Heller wound up spending last weekend at the academy. Heller thought the idea not the least bit strange. "Catch-22 is no more antiwar or antimilitary than other novels," he says. "What it's critical of is dishonesty, personal corruption, ambition -- what any decent person would...
...People's Army. But then events took an unexpected turn. At 8:45 p.m. last Monday, Philippine security officers seized Rodolfo Salas, a top N.P.A. commander, outside a hospital in Manila. The military hailed the arrest, which ended a 13-year hunt for Salas, as its biggest catch in almost a decade. Lawyers for the rebels had a quick response: release Salas, or give up all hope of a cease-fire...
...well as those last year regarding popular Psychology and Sociology professors James Stellar and Paul Starr--have only reinforced the role of junior faculty as disposable commodities whose time spent teaching often serves to subsidize older professors who may then forsake the undergraduate community for their research. The Catch-22 of Harvard's publish-or-perish tenure policy is that it ultimately rewards a non-commitment to teaching...