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More importantly, publishing a record would also add a valuable element of accountability to the disciplinary process. If its workings are under public scrutiny, the Ad Board will have an additional incentive to be as fair as possible in reviewing cases. Under the status quo, the Ad Board can apply rules inconsistently or treat similar cases in different ways precisely because it operates under the veil of secrecy...
While the midnight disease is one of the novel's main preoccupations--it begins with the memory of Vetch, as if everything that follows is an elegy on the dark fate of the write--it is probably the least successful element of what is essentially a comic story. Chabon's strength is his witty, graceful, delicately absurd style, and his attempt to turn his comic creations into bearers of a secret curse does not come off. Grady remains a Rabelaisian "minotaur," too devoted to sex, marijuana and adventure ever to seem suicidal; even James is more quirky than disturbed...
Younger attributed much of his success to that missing link--the team--an element that, although physically absent from NCAAs, was very much a part of his success...
...could have been sitting on a few shares of Berkshire Hathaway and turned $1,000 into $1 million. That's the return since 1969. I actually owned Berkshire for a stretch in the 1980s but sold it too soon. Buffett himself rarely sells too soon. A key element of his strategy is to buy companies at favorable prices and sit on them. It's the sitting part that Robert Hagstrom says most of us overlook...
Finally, the definition says that harassment is characterized by "an element of intimidation" which, it turns out, is the basis for the advice to trust your own instincts. It is no wonder that Lat has difficulty with this advice, as he apparently is unable to tell the difference between a teacher-student conference over lunch and someone using a position of power to gain sexual advantage...