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"He showed up one day...and we needed a tenor saxophonist who also played clarinet," says Leonard Garment, a Washington lawyer who used to play with and manage the band. "He seemed competent and reliable, so we hired him."
The University, along with the rest of American higher education, eventually has to realize that a professor's quality can't be measured in published pages alone. Harvard's tenure system must reward truly good teachers, not just pay lip service to the second half of their standard of "leading...
My appeal does not question the need for expert judgment in the tenure process. Competent and unbiased judgement is essential to the integrity of formal procedure.
The most scathing recent criticism along these lines was particularly painful. Peter Krogh, who had been her close friend and mentor when he was dean of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service during her tenure there, wrote two weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal, "I cannot recall a...
But suppose sharpies bamboozle Grandpa into buying stock in Fraudulent Uranium Co. or Flim-Flam.com Not to worry: the law should allow only competent and honest professional managers to bid for Social Security money--and require them to offer a wide choice among funds making highly conservative to more adventurous investments...