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...heard nary a peep from them in the first several days of the Lewinsky story, aside from more legalistic nondenials from Clinton. Now the Clinton team says it cannot explain anything in detail because it must collect information for Kenneth Starr's investigation. Yet Clinton is under no legal constraint, and the only facts that matter reside in his head. Simply put, an innocent man does not behave as Clinton has in the past two weeks. This is the case of Sherlock Holmes and the dog that didn't bark...
...when I was on the Harvard Faculty. Indeed, it seems quite likely that, rather than being prevented from regularly tenuring Faculty because it is so small, the department is so small, because it hardly ever awards tenure. Demrosch's proposition implies that the English department suffers an absolute constraint on its size that has been imposed by the administration; this may be so, but my fellow junior Faculty and I certainly never saw any evidence of such a constraint during the early 1990's. What we did see was a Faculty that regularly demurred at conferring tenure even on remark...
Without this kind of false rhetoric, my father would not have been promoted. By making it a requirement for professional promotion, volunteer work became a burden associated with an increasingly unpopular political system; this connotation eventually emptied the noble meaning of volunteer work reducing it to an unpleasant constraint...
...persuaded of the need to go from eight to seven courses. I need to be shown that the constraint comes from the Core, and not from concentrations or the student's own choice," Dominguez says. "A pre-med English concentrator is going to have a tough time, but he or she is an intelligent student and that's a choice they didn't have to make...
According to Bahat, the biggest constraint on how many groups the organization can admit is the number of vans PBHA owns...