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Bybee’s former colleague Matthew J. Dickinson, who taught American Politics in the government department for six years from 1993 to 1999, left for a position in the Middlebury College political science department before going up for tenure because it just made more sense to him. “You need three things to get tenure,” Dickinson explains. “First, you need to be very good. Second, you need to be very lucky. You have to come up at a time where what you do is considered hot. And three, you need...
Despite commuting over the mountains for six years and the eventual decision to leave Harvard without going up for tenure, Dickinson has no second thoughts about the time he did spend in Cambridge. “I came out of there a much better political scientist than when I came in.” Dickinson, comfortable enough in his choice to reflect positively on his experience, is an anecdotal anomaly. Many people who either left Harvard without pursuing tenure or who were denied tenure do not even want to discuss the issue for feaar of picking at the scabs...
...Well, that’s a long question. Starting off with the early American modernists: Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane and William Carlos Williams. I would say my great loves which I can read with infinite, infinite pleasure would be Wallace Stevens and Emily Dickinson...
...original discovery. That's partly to make research widely available while still compensating scientists for their intellectual-property rights. "We have tried to make this access as open as possible," says WARF spokesman Andrew Cohn. "Imagine if a private company had sole control of this patent." Indeed, says Todd Dickinson, a patent attorney and former head of the U.S. Patent Office, "it sounds like WARF is trying to keep access more open than it might otherwise...
...your item on Nicole Kidman's playing the role of Virginia Woolf in a new film [PEOPLE, June 18]: Ridiculous! What's next, Jennifer Lopez as Emily Dickinson? Or Roseanne as Gertrude Stein? SARAH BROWN Evanston...