Word: crapshooter
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...either doom or delight. Delight is what you feel when you’ve been lotteried into Adams. Doom is what you feel when you’ve been exiled to the Quad. For the most part, where you are delivered is out of your control. Housing is a crapshoot at Harvard, and all you can do is block wisely and hold on tight...
...about citation counts than a professor’s reputation within a department. Furthermore, once a candidate passes the first round of vetting, there are secondary and even tertiary stages in the process that give effective veto power to so many parties that getting tenure becomes all but a crapshoot for even the most accomplished scholars.Harvard’s antipathy towards awarding tenure to junior faculty, especially internal junior faculty, is flawed. While Harvard’s professors should be the cream of the crop, its tenure process should be more geared to finding rising stars who will...
...grip on so many of our people. The emotionalism, the rapture that it entails, science can’t give us. The fact that science becomes cut and dried and creationism provides us with mystery and thrill and alleviation of our by-the-numbers existence, it becomes a crapshoot for us: go to heaven, pray, and my life will be saved. When the applause died down after the actors took their final bows, Asner was the last to leave the stage, making sure to collect all of his various props. He left his Bible behind...
...this circumstance," says Russell, who chairs the breast cancer advisory committee for the American Cancer Society. For a patient like Edwards, who is 57, the response to renewed treatment will depend on the specific and unknown genetic makeup of her cancer cells. Says Russell: "It's a total crapshoot." (See portraits of breast cancer survivors...
Predicting which shows will work in which foreign markets is always a bit of a crapshoot. "Rule 1 of the global TV market is that each market is different," says Grindon. Comedies, which often get lost in translation or bad dubbing, have been inciting mini bidding wars. 'Til Death, a conventional sitcom starring Everybody Loves Raymond alum Brad Garrett, and NBC's offbeat comedy My Name Is Earl are getting as much as $500,000 an episode, compared with $200,000 for sitcoms five years ago. Touchstone's Ugly Betty is on its second global lap. Based on the wildly...