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Moreover, as Knowles reminded the Faculty in a letter this week, FAS faces a deficit that is projected to persist long into the future. That will mean belt tightening for each of its constituent departments and centers. The College must not, however, be left in the dust. The way to improve the student experience is not to funnel all the money to faculty, a perilous policy supported by a ludicrously large number of otherwise-intelligent people. Improvements that directly impact students—which have dramatically enhanced the student experience in recent years—cost comparatively little...
...Summers dust-up, Skocpol operated as both provocateur and problem-solver...
...Summers dust-up, Skocpol operated as both provocateur and problem-solver...
...things did not start well. We'd arranged a 5 a.m. start in the hope of crossing the 614 miles of unpaved road to the eastern town of Abeche by nightfall. Bishaq was not only five and a half hours late, but come 5 p.m., as we passed a dust-blown town called Mongo, he suddenly swerved through some metal gates, pulled up in a dusty courtyard, stepped out and ambled away with the word: "Hotel...
...When the dust cleared, the overall nightly news audience was around 25 million and gradually falling, much as before. And Gibson, the one anchor to have a bit of success, was the anti-Couric: avuncular, male, older (he replaced Elizabeth Vargas, two decades his junior) and unreliant on innovations like Op-Ed segments. Hiring him implied an entirely different view of TV news and its future. CBS was programming for the viewers network news wanted. ABC was programming to keep the viewers network news already had, for as long as the Grim Reaper would permit...