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...consider the policies that are influenced by the notion that our economy needs to be "competitive" when stacked up against other countries'. "If you talk about competitiveness you tend to fall into a football way of thinking," says Deirdre McCloskey, a professor of economics and English at the University of Illinois at Chicago who has studied the use of rhetoric in economics. The goal of competition is winning. If we want to win, then maybe we need to start helping industries that haven't done a very good job of competing on their own. Automobiles, anyone...
...editor-at-large of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), Jesse Sheidlower has a bird's-eye view of how words do - or don't - make their way into the book that defines the English language. The past year has seen such additions as subprime and credit crunch. Those words had been around for quite some time, but it took a while for the OED to give them their own entries. "We're not going to just put in buzzwords," says Sheidlower. "We're not going to put in something that will go away three months from now." Which is perhaps...
...English professor Gordon Teskey said that while he does not have a grasp of administrative details, he believes that larger departments can be “intellectually enlivening” for faculty...
...English professor Louis Menand said that while the administration can only fire faculty members by closing departments, he has not heard it being discussed and does not believe that the administration needs to change its departmental structure...
...English professor Daniel G. Donoghue cautioned against a merger of English and Celtic because he believes that the Celtic department might disappear within English, though he said that mergers in the style of the Romance Languages and Literatures Department might be a workable alternative...