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...view that in one’s first term in the council, you can err on the side of needing more information because you want to fully understand a thing,” Reeves said. “[But] at some point, you want to put in the human factor and say, do you want to torture the manager enough?” “A lot of people feel that if you’ve filed a lot of orders, you’ve somehow done a better job than someone else, which is absolutely not true...
...case for tenure was fair and did not differ in any significant way from the standard process used in tenure reviews at MIT,” MIT’s press office said in a statement concerning Sherley’s tenure case.Sherley contends that racism was a factor in not only his tenure decision, but also his treatment at MIT since he arrived.“I hope that what is happening at MIT will spur discussion at Harvard and other universities about how processes like tenure enable racism,” Sherley said yesterday. Sherley graduated from Harvard...
...Ithaca, the latent potential that her teammates always knew existed finally emerged.Using her height to grab rebounds, provide key defensive stops, and reject many a shot had always come easy for Moretzsohn. It was not until her double-double on Saturday night against Cornell in which the offensive factor finally kicked into gear.“She was very impressive Saturday night,” sophomore Katie Rollins said. “She displayed confidence and poise that we knew she always had.” The Harvard women’s basketball team cruised to a 71-57 victory...
Just as students need to be held accountable, so too do teachers. Study after study shows that teachers are crucial to student performance, vastly more important than any other single factor. So if students do particularly well, teachers should be rewarded with higher pay. And, if a particular teacher consistently performs poorly—students regularly lose ground in his or her class—that teacher should be asked to find work elsewhere...
...only the ruling Shi'ite Alliance that views Iran as friend rather than foe. "If you exclude the Sunnis, the majority of Iraqis think of Iran as a friend," Kurdish legislator Mahmoud Othman told the L.A. Times. In other words, the U.S. claim of Iran being a negative factor in Iraq is shared only by the political leadership (parliamentary and insurgent) of the Sunni minority. Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders alike protested loudly when the U.S. arrested Iranian security officials in the Kurdish city of Erbil. A more aggressive U.S. stance against Iran on Iraqi soil is likely to widen...