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...says of many of the resonant names of the profession, 'poor marketers out to massage their own egos generation after generation.' Straus shuns the bureaucratic style of those merged entities resulting from takeovers by huge conglomerates that demand a fast return on their investment. He works in close contact with his employees. When the air conditioning broke down, he dashed out to buy Good Humors for the entire staff ... FS&G's authors seem glad to forgo the ritual overpriced lunch (Straus takes writers to modest neighborhood restaurants) for the opportunity to work closely with underpaid four-star editors. [Scott...
...show that some sense of normalcy was returning. But by late last summer, the violence against both coalition targets and Iraqis had begun, and Bremer has rarely been out of his security bubble since. A former top adviser who briefed Bremer every day says Bremer was in constant contact with his bosses at the Pentagon, talking daily with Washington officials like Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. "I was never in a meeting when I saw Bremer make a decision with senior aides. He'd come out of his phone calls, and he'd say, 'Here's what we're going...
...worked as an officer for a year and a half. Then they realized how near-sighted I am. I couldn't pass the civil service test, because I wasn't allowed to wear contact lenses...
...Because of the rough conditions, it was hard for us to break away right from the start,” senior six-seat Cameron Winklevoss said. “We had some contact going into the first half-mile...[but had] a healthy lead crossing the mile and a half mark. By the two-mile mark we felt the race was secure...
Many of the proposals to improve teaching are also good, including the suggestions to expand junior seminars, reduce section size from 18 to 15 and require professors to head concentration tutorials. The report’s perennial focus on increased student and faculty contact through smaller classes and an expanded Faculty, meanwhile, will hopefully give students the attention they deserve. Still, the recommendations to encourage better teaching fellows—which range from new awards for top-notch TFs to better TF training—will do little to change teaching quality because they do not insist on greater coursehead...