Word: courtly
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Once upon a time, everyone knew where everyone was, or at least was supposed to be. The jocks were in Mather, the aristocracy held court in Eliot, and the nudists frolicked in the tunnels of Adams. Nowadays, with randomization, Harvard's efforts at the "small college community" are thwarted by the random collection of students in each House. While the system is an admirable attempt to mark out stratification, what has resulted is a loss of House individuality, spirit and unity--incidentally, exactly what makes communal living worthwhile...
...such cover stories as "Are Black People Cooler Than White People?" In Might's "Sellout issue," every page of the magazine, including the cover, was sold to a corporate sponsor and the record reviews were written by record company PR departments. When Might folded after 16 issues Eggers was courted by mainstream magazines and spent a year as editor-at-large at Esquire. Put off by the industry's obsession with celebrity and circulation, Eggers left Esquire to start McSweeney's, a quarterly journal stocked with quirky pieces that are impossible to categorize. The latest issue features "Supreme Court Basketball...
Professors at public universities are not necessarily entitled to bargain collectively with their employers over their workloads, according to a decision of the Supreme Court last month...
With only Justice John Paul Stevens dissenting, the 8-1 decision reversed a previous judgment of the Supreme Court of Ohio...
...AAUP was successful in its original suit, decided by the Ohio Supreme Court. The Court ruled that preventing professors from exercising their right to collective bargaining violated both the state and federal Constitutions...