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...President Iajuddin Ahmed, presumably with the backing of the army, called a state of emergency, imposed night curfews across the country and postponed the elections indefinitely. An interim government promises to revamp the compromised election commission, fix dodgy electoral rolls and root out corruption. Just don't expect an election anytime soon...
...individuals also said they expect Provost Steven E. Hyman to remain on the search committee’s list of candidates until the end, even though they both said that Hyman’s placement on the list is a courtesy extended in recognition of his half-decade as the University’s number-two administrator—not necessarily an indication of serious consideration...
...such complaints expose an often overlooked double standard: We expect our professors to teach us the skills we need to know, yet we expect our professors to somehow innately know how to teach without ever having been taught how to do so. Just as our abilities to craft theses don’t simply materialize in the night, professors are not hatched from graduate schools knowing how to teach. Teaching itself is a skill that must be learned and taught...
...unfortunate reality is that the publish-or-perish mentality forces many professors to choose career advancement over spending the time and energy necessary to improve their teaching. It would be unrealistic to expect this mentality to disappear. What the College must do, therefore, is make good teaching a crucial aspect of, rather than a distraction from, career advancement. The Bok Center, the stated mission of which is to “enhance the quality of teaching and learning in Harvard College courses,” is a good step in the right direction. Professors are encouraged to attend lectures offered...
...Already, the site claims to have received 1.2 million documents, which will be available when Wikileaks goes live some time in the next two months. As an example of what to expect, the site's organizers posted a memo on civil war policy issued in November 2005 by the Somalian Islamic court system's Office of the Chief of the Imams. Wikileaks also posted a 17-page analysis of the memo. According to Dr S. Samatar, professor of African History at Rutgers University-Newark, the analysis is "very well-written, but is out of date because events have since overtaken...