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...yesterday evening, saying that “if it’s not resolved soon, we might not have a chance in the future.” Speaking before a capacity crowd in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, the queen—who is of Palestinian and Jordanian decent??described the conflict in the Middle East as not simply “an abstraction,” as it is often perceived in the Western world, “but a difficult and daily reality.” “We talk about tolerance and acceptance...
...tenure,” she says. A strong scholarly record trumps a candidate’s teaching performance, Gordon says. “Somebody could be a terrific scholar and ‘good’ teacher, and they would get an endorsement....A merely ‘decent?? scholar and great teacher would be unlikely to get tenure,” he says. But University President Lawrence H. Summers says he has tried to emphasize the importance of teaching for tenured faculty. “I hope we’ve been successful in promoting more generally...
...last week, notching a shutout over the latter squad, then No. 9 in the country. But that didn’t mean that there wasn’t plenty for the Crimson (9-4-1, 7-4-0 ECAC) to work on in practice this week. “Decent?? was junior defenseman Dylan Reese’s assessment of the Crimson’s play en route to the two victories. “Maybe average, but not much better,” he said. Though Harvard’s defense limited UNH’s momentum...
...tragedy, of course, is that we live amidst the ruins of a functioning House system. We have mostly nominal House Masters and Senior Common Room members, and a mostly unpublicized—though decent??games system in intramural athletics (IMs). And who can forget the grossly inefficient 13 dining halls that we run precisely because of these Houses in the first place...
...fair price of labor—we do not support SLAM’s calls for a $20 living wage. The actual numbers put to living wage demands are based on estimates of the cost of a decent lifestyle in Boston. Living wage advocates are defining “decent?? far too generously. According to the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the 2005 median income for a family of four in the Boston metro area is $82,600. This number is slightly higher than the U.S. Census Bureau’s last median income estimate for all of Massachusetts...