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...novel. For most of its meandering minutes, The Human Stain remains as glacial as its scenery, too cool and too detached; it never packs a genuine emotional, much less social or political, punch. Even Farely’s bitter tears, shed as she mourns the wreck of her life, fail to generate much sympathy for her character. Perhaps it’s the uneven pacing; perhaps it’s the inherently disjointed nature of this chronologically fragmented tale. In any case, The Human Stain is a story better left in print...
...potential distraction to his teammates, they’ve all dealt with the media before. Granted, this accusation is on a whole different level from the pesky Shaq-Kobe spats that crop up without fail every year, including this year’s installment. But if any team is prepared to deal with the media circus, it is the L.A. Lakers...
Limbaugh’s remarks, according to Early, point to deeper-seated racial attitudes that fail to give some black athletes their due credit...
While these changes will ameliorate flaws with the blind letter system and allow for fairer treatment of internal candidates, they utterly fail to compensate for the system’s serious lack of consideration for one of the most important characteristics of tenured professors: the quality and tested duration of teaching—ostensibly one of the main things they are hired...
...ability of candidates—teachers who truly inspire their students to intellectual pursuit would be as accredited as those who merely excel in the lab. Without this crucial component, Harvard’s tenure system, however marginally improved with the alteration of the blind letter system, will continually fail to bring the most important thing to the classroom...