Word: faired
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...member of the junior Faculty has a right to tenure at Harvard. But every member of the junior Faculty who rises through the ranks and fully performs his duties under his contract has a right to a fair process of review, and at the very least a process consistent with Harvard's own formal procedures...
What is uncommon in my case is the extent of Harvard's disregard of its own rules for tenure review and its flouting of basic requirements of fair process. What also sets my case apart is that a member of the Harvard senior faculty, with imagination, audacity and an unusually lively sense of fair play took an interest in what happened and concluded that something should and could be done about...
With the help of Harvard Law School Professor Charles Nesson, I initiated an appeal now a year and a half ago and am still appealing to Harvard through its own procedures. From the outset we have sought no more than fair process...
...appeal does not question the institution of tenure. It is fair consideration for tenure that I seek. Without tenure, perhaps even Professor Nesson would hide or lose his independence...
Other than her friend and employer, Katharine Graham, she was the most powerful woman in Washington, yet she never flaunted her power or made a big deal of her womanhood. She simply took her work responsibly, with deep fair-mindedness. How she loved the news! Meg lived alone, and in a way the news was her family. Journalism offered a chance to apply something outside the news to the news. She was saved from the corrosive boredom that ruins other journalists by her knowledge of English literature. In her 50s she took up Greek...