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...public service. Much of the discussion surrounded the current state of the program in the upperclass Houses, which was characterized as ambiguous and inconsistent. While House Masters assign tutors to these roles, many do not receive training or are unclear as to their responsibilities. Suzy M. Nelson, the associate dean of residential life, said tutors are hired, in part, based on their expertise in areas such as law, writing, or medicine, but House masters often struggle to fill other positions. “You might not have someone who is really interested in job number 10, but you might have...
...petition signed by over 200 faculty and students was delivered to the office of Medical School Dean Jeffrey S. Flier, who was traveling at the time. The event drew the attention of representatives from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer and former New England Journal of Medicine editor Arnold S. Relman, a Medical School professor who extemporaneously addressed the group...
...wants viewers to believe not so much in vampires as in the existence of an anachronistic movie notion: a love that is convulsive and ennobling. Bella could be any Hollywood heroine in love with a good boy whom society callously misunderstands. She's Natalie Wood to Edward's James Dean (in Rebel Without a Cause) or Richard Beymer (in West Side Story). Cathy, meet Heathcliff. Juliet, Romeo...
...Mark Cuban, the guy, is just a shareholder - he has no obligation," says Jonathan Macey, a professor of securities law and deputy dean at the Yale School of Management. "The critical question is if anything happened in that phone call that gave rise to a promise." Under an SEC rule adopted in 2000, if Cuban agreed to keep the information confidential, then he had a "duty of trust or confidence...
This unwillingness to engage with the rest of the world - to risk the sense of security that it enjoys within its own borders - led Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, to reply to Rachman's column by saying that Europe was a "political dwarf in ... the rapidly changing geopolitical environment." There's an element of truth to the charge, but it goes too far. For one thing, it ignores the triumphant role of exemplar that the European Union has played in the last two decades. Yes, the pettifogging...