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...star, Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, recently met the same fate. These two are only the latest in a long string of highly qualified junior faculty members who were unable to meet the inordinately exacting standards of Harvard’s tenure review process. Harvard is famous for sending away even the most promising junior faculty to make their names elsewhere, and then occasionally bringing them back after they’ve won their Pulitzer Prizes or Fields Medals. While the tenure process is shrouded in mystery and data is hard to come by, it is generally...
...Despite the fact that his dad was never a famous rapper (and Weezy is almost seven years older than Romeo), he has yet to drop Lil’ from his name. If that weren’t enough, his 2006 collaboration with mentor Baby, “Like Father, Like Son,” features a number of references to the Birdman as his father...
...should head south to the Queensbridge housing projects in New York, the birthplace of Nas. I know, his dad didn’t rap either, but he is a famous jazz musician. And jazz, of course, is often considered the precursor...
...country that gave the world the Kama Sutra be so prudish? It's a longstanding cliché to note that India has produced both the world's most famous guide to love and erotic pleasure and some of the most conservative social rules this side of Saudi Arabia on such questions as kissing in public. That paradox was on display once again this week in the firestorm that swept India following a seemingly innocuous - and obviously staged - celebrity kiss on the cheek at an AIDS-awareness event...
...offended by [the kiss]," says Kakar, a psychoanalyst and a former senior fellow at the Center for Study of World Religions at Harvard. "They want people not to go down the road towards erotic freedom. There's a struggle going on for their votes, actually." (See pictures of famous couples...