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...such decisions by the deans. In fact, deans do not have the statutory right to make such decisions, but they control the appointments procedure to a degree that faculty-members fear to oppose them. In department meetings, professors spend a lot of time guessing about how to satisfy the ego needs, idiosyncrasies, and disciplinary biases of the deans, who distribute the resources that make departments grow or wither. Lacking tenure, the career administrators themselves constantly trade rumors about who needs to be in the favor of whom in order to survive or get anything done...
There are only a few hundred Desmosedicis in the world, right? Only 500 in the United States, and I'm the only woman in the world that has that bike. And of course my ego is so happy [about that] I can barely stand...
...artwork in the exhibition ranges from knits to video to sculpture. Lien is including a video collaboration with J. Lorenzo Camacho ’07, a teaching assistant for the VES department; the film, “A Preemptive Maneuver” follows Vivid Luster, the alter ego of Lien and Camacho, on a mythic journey throughout the West. One of Kase’s featured pieces is a necklace, which she used as a medium because she believes it to be an object charged with notions of gender, race, and class that are often related...
...your boss a bully who needs to feel important and boosts his ego by withholding important information from you? Or maybe you work with someone who is so fearful of argument or criticism that problems go unsolved because she won't discuss them. And then there's that guy down the hall who's constantly annoying everybody with his dumb practical jokes and loud banter. As the recession sends stress levels into the stratosphere, does your colleagues' weird behavior seem to be getting worse...
...wealthiest men in American history with an estimated net worth in 1877 of $100 million, representing 1 out of every 20 dollars that was in circulation. Stiles said that though many recognize Vanderbilt for his business endeavors, the businessman’s personal life and ego are the focal point of the story. “For a man who was overly ruthless and willing to gamble the stability of the economy, he had a strict code of ethics and he lived by it,” Stiles said. “That personal pride drove...