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When Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. announced that he would be leaving Duke University to head Harvard's Afro-Am Department, students there joked that he was "skipping town." At the time, Stanley E. Fish, the chair of Duke's English Department--in which Gates held a joint appointment--took the matter in stride. But it looks like "skipping town syndrome" might be contagious after...
...Chronicle of Higher Education recently reported that Fish will step down as chair of the department, mere weeks after Gates's announcement. They quoted from an article in Academic Questions, by University of Central Arkansas professor Phillip B. Anderson...
...oral postscript to his article, [Anderson] wondered whether the department--which, he said, Mr. Fish had built artificially by recruiting recognized, high-priced scholars--could sustain itself. "The direction of the department was Mr. Fish's direction," he said. "It's basically a department of hired guns." The recent announcement that the scholar Henry Louis Gates would leave the department for a better offer, he suggested, may be a sign of things to come...
Lobbyists these days need to play hardball, King says, relying not on flattery, but on convincing testimonials and hard facts. "One of the great myths is that everyone's for sale for a tuna fish sandwich," Northeastern's vice president says...
Fortunately, Bush knows better than anyone else the fragility of exaltation and has warned about it since his Inauguration. Even better, Barbara plans to drag him off to a fishing vacation as soon as possible. Herbert Hoover, who never had Bush's luck or touch, nonetheless left some pertinent wisdom for Presidents. He urged them to go fishing at every opportunity. "It is discipline in the equality of men," said Hoover. "For all men are equal before fish...