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RICHARD DALEY, Chicago Mayor, after the City Council approved a ban on the sale of foie gras on the grounds that production of fatty duck and goose livers requires inhumane treatment of the birds...
...substitute for conversation and questioning advocates of appointments rather than simply reading files. And so I hope very much that system will be preserved.”Presidents of other leading institutions are not as involved in the tenure process as Summers.At the University of Chicago, the provost decides the outcome of a tenure case after reading the documents and the deans’ recommendation, says Provost Richard P. Saller. Chicago’s president signs off on tenure appointments but does not participate in discussion about the files.“I don’t think it makes...
...United States for credit, just as they do for study abroad. Harvard students should not have to take time off or work during the summer if they wish to study the lingering effects of sharecropping and the Reconstruction in the American south, the public housing crisis in Chicago, or issues of immigration in Texas. If a Harvard student can organize a semester in Morocco with one application and a few clicks of the mouse, she should have similar ease in planning a course of study that will open her eyes to unfamiliar aspects of her own nation. Emma M. Lind...
...Chicago, there are lots of sour faces as passengers step off the South Shore Line's cramped 7:35 into Chicago's Randolph Street station from nearby Notre Dame University in South Bend, Ind. The 90-minute trip, along the electric-powered silver train that in normal years carries about 13,000 passengers a day in relative comfort, has seen daily ridership spike to over 17,000 at points in recent months. What was once a leisurely, relatively pleasant way to start off and end the workday has become an exercise in elbow wrestling...
...wouldn't say it's at the point where people are knocking each other around, but these trains, they're certainly filling up," said Chicago-area daily rider and state court reporter Gloria Shelley, 55, navigating a crowded station as commuters from Indiana and elsewhere hopped off a later train bound for the Chicago Cubs afternoon game...