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...second-guessing one of its own tenured faculty, the University is violating the sacred pact that has allowed ideas of all kinds to flourish for so many years. Even worse, the Medical School has set an unfortunate precedent for future episodes involving unorthodox professors. The incident raises some troubling questions that we should consider. Will future Medical School faculty and administrators appeal to this incident as a precedent for investigating others with opinions that are unconventional or politically incorrect? Will the Tosteson-Rehlman rationale be employed by deans in other faculties less restrained than Knowles to investigate the likes...
...example] Frank Stella, Jackson Pollock, Anthony Caro, and Kenneth Noland--as well as in the Mannerists, in 20th-century photographers, and in Dutch and Flemish print makers. This wise eclectic spirit nurtured the Museum, and infused the Department, in a way that allowed individuals and the University to flourish together...
...could have just gone on with his insular, middle class ways, but he remained connected with the Black consciousness," says Thomson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson '58. "Wilson put his upper-middle class discipline to [the movement], but allowed the militancy and student activism to flourish...
...Bennett of fraud, and the SEC charged that he diverted $4.2 million into two firms he controlled personally. In a letter sent last Friday to his contributors, Bennett wrote, "Those of you who know us, know we would never have done anything other than enable you to grow and flourish . My sole desire is to do everything possible to see that the obligations we have to you are fulfilled." But according to the Wall Street Journal, he admitted to his staff on May 13 that the mystery donors never existed...
...shot with lots of close-ups of manly jawlines, as if every sailor were posing to be sculpted like the U.S. Presidents onto Mount Rushmore. When in doubt, director Tony Scott (Top Gun, Days of Thunder) lets loose a spray of water, sparks and sweat-the signature flourish of this Helmut Newton of movie machismo...