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...hire new faculty is much like a parent choosing a favorite child. While those lucky departments express their euphoria, everyone else is filled with jealousy and complains relentlessly. When making these decisions we hope his or her attention will be dominated by balancing two main concerns: the demand for teaching and the University’s research priorities...
...already low, although FiCom chair Alexander “Zander” N. Li ’09, who is also a Crimson editorial editor, says he does not expect they will run out again thanks to money that was allocated but never claimed last semester. But if demand in the final two grants packages exceeds the amount left, hopefully FiCom will demonstrate some initiative and responsibility in deciding where the remaining money goes rather than re-imposing last year’s indiscriminate cuts...
...make alternate post-graduate plans. After investing in these foreign students by giving them places in American universities, it is absurd to turn them away when they ask to stay and contribute to America.Our policy has not always been so restrictive. During the dot-com boom we experienced high demand and raised the cap to 195,000, a level that was never reached. Congress, however, let the cap fall back to 65,000 in 2003. Since then it has been reached progressively earlier each year as demand has increased—first in August, then...
...Those strategies range from humor to props, rhetorical devices, poignant quotes, stirring anecdotes, and cultural references. “You’re rhetorical Doctor Frankensteins,” she told students. Participants filled the IOP conference room to capacity, diligently scribbling and typing notes. “Demand [for attendance] was very high,” according to special projects coordinator Lawrence D. Arbuthnott ’10. Thirty undergraduates were admitted by lottery. Invitations were also issued to participants in the IOP’s Women’s Initiative in Leadership program, which co-hosted the workshop...
...Instead, on that day, the fiery Iranian leader muted his tone and appealed for dialogue with the West, evidently hoping to stave off a second U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions over Iran's failure to heed its demand to suspend uranium-enrichment activities. But on March 24, the Security Council unanimously voted to expand the sanctions, and now Tehran has reverted to defiance...