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When asked why he chose this point to step down, Bloom pointed to his long tenure and said the school needs “someone younger and more dynamic...
...claimed that critics of Israel, like himself, “tremble in fear” of repercussions for their views. Many Faculty members questioned Matory’s motives and the motion’s relevance. But the Faculty lacked the quorum necessary for an official vote, and instead chose to table the proposal until its December meeting. Matory’s motion resolved: “That this Faculty commits itself to fostering civil dialogue in which people with a broad range of perspectives feel safe and are encouraged to express their reasoned and evidence-based ideas...
...while it is pleasing to be recognized, students’ final decisions do not depend on them. The universities are evaluated on six criteria: peer review, recruiter review, excellence in research based on citations, student to faculty ratio, international faculty ratio, and international student ratio. THES and QS Quacquarelli chose criteria that they thought could be evaluated regardless of location. Universities from 28 countries are included in the list. The top 10 institutions, however, are limited in location to the U.S. and the United Kingdom. These institutions are set apart by the fact that they maintain academic independence despite receiving...
...turned my attention to the entertainment options: 29 video-on-demand movies (there will be 60 by the end of March), 77 TV shows, 102 CDs, 12 music channels and even Nintendo games and mah-jongg. As a big Denzel Washington fan, I chose his latest movie, Out of Time. He looked great on the relatively large, 9-in. video screen. After a couple of hours with Denzel, I got in some serious bar time--Singapore Airlines has done what no other airline has done for years, which is to devote a large expanse of space in the coach section...
...this point, we were 15 1/2 hours aloft. Time for more food! I again chose fish (the Indian meal had run out) and it was as good as the first meal. I had brought a bunch of stationery with me, thinking I'd use the hours to return to the glorious age of letter writing. Nah. Back to Jarhead. Then another inspection trip to the bathroom--which remained remarkably clean to the very end of the flight. As Flight 19 finally touched down in Singapore, some 9,000 miles and 18 hours and four minutes after takeoff, the passengers broke...