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...America gone insane? Season six for American Idol has caused us to ask some fundamental questions about the reality television phenomenon. Show judge Simon Cowell repeatedly chides contestants, "This is a singing competition." But is it really? When talented singers such as Gina Glocksen are voted off in favor of a tone-deaf Sanjaya Malakar, with his trainwreck performances, the question is whether Idol is really a singing competition, or something altogether different...
...relative in medicine, you still need a good generalist - someone who knows you and knows the ropes. This is going to take effort and maybe some money; there are fewer of them and HMO fees are so low that many won't take on new patients except as a favor. This is especially true for the good ones who really spend time and develop a relationship with their patients. Internists vary tremendously. Some treat everything, some just do check-ups and referrals. If competent, the former will save you a lot of anxiety, waiting-room time and money. They will...
...reason for the vanishing movie female is that the genres in which women used to be equal or dominant--the romantic melodrama and comedy--fell out of favor when the core audience changed from families to teen boys. The guy-kids prefer starker fare: action movies (one man against the system), science fantasy (techies save the solar system) and horror films (where young women are the naked and the dead, usually in that order). What didn't change was Hollywood's view of the sexes: that men are defined by their exploits, women by their emotions. In a movie...
...teaching to be given “major and equal weight” as research in deciding professorial salaries. Effecting her and her task force’s recommendations will be critically important in the face of many professors’ tendency to devote scant attention to pedagogy in favor of research, writing, and publication. Though scholarship is no doubt vital to any modern research university, it cannot function as such without quality instruction from devoted researchers. Still other achievements include her work to ensure that all Ph.D. students have adequate dissertation funding, to unify “best practices?...
University politics can be quite the minefield to tread, and we regret that Skocpol’s personal attributes and managerial style fell out of favor with her colleagues. With her resignation, we have lost a driven leader whose vision for the pedagogical improvement of Harvard will be sorely missed. But her resignation also reflects lessons to be learned. Like it or not, University politics clearly demands that administrators not only have vision and drive, but also the ability to accomplish their goals diplomatically...