Word: fittings
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...neutrality of the tenure process which former Dean of FAS Henry Rosovsky heralds in The University, is maintained. For the University community as a whole, the question is whether this method of ad hoc review committees and secretive letters is the best way to determine if a candidate is fit for tenure. Berkowitz and his lawyers will most likely have to proceed with the circumstantial evidence that they have shared with the public in Nesson's forum and over the Internet. The Joint Committee, which has tremendous power and access, truly has the opportunity to look seriously into possible procedural...
Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra has frequently been called a "problem play." The characters do not fit into familiar Shakespearean molds, and the play itself refuses to be classified as a simple history, tragedy or romance. An excellent cast under the masterful direction of Timothy Foley '98 has capitalized on Antony and Cleopatra's uniqueness, foregone Shakespearean stereotypes and assimilated a production that is not at all problematic...
...once skimped on holiday decorations have hired a singing harpist for the lobby. There are 50 kinds of mustard at the supermarket, and at the Tops in Buffalo, N.Y., sales of shiitake mushrooms have doubled this year. Clinique is marketing a perfume called Happy, and Levi Strauss sells custom-fit riveted jeans based on customers' computer-detailed specifications. The youngest donors ever to endow a chair at Stanford are the founders of Internet browser Yahoo!--even the chair comes with an exclamation point...
...wasn't. Three weeks into his new career, and teamed with a veteran officer, Blondie made his first arrest; he nabbed a rape suspect. "Nothing fit," Blondie recalls now. "The clothes description over the radio wasn't like what our guy had on, and he wasn't sweating. He said he was just standing outside his own home, which turned out to be true. But the victim ID'd him, so we took him anyway. She was so hysterical; she would have identified anyone." When Blondie vociferously questioned the arrest, he was told to "shut up, listen and learn...
...religious aspect of Christmas has never fit very well with television, so every year at this time, when the holiday specials and Christmas-themed episodes of regular shows crowd the schedule, it's almost impossible to find programs that actually treat the event supposedly being celebrated--the birth of Jesus Christ. Of course, the secularization of Christmas is a process that is already far along, and by serving up Jack Frost and chestnuts, TV is simply satisfying the tastes of its viewers. Still, it is remarkable that of the dozens of shows created especially for this Christmas season...