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...little put out by the acclaim heaped on his Frankenstein's monster (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY named it the best album of 2004). "Mixing two records takes discipline and creativity, but it's not talent," he says. "It's just output." When the hype cooled, Burton feared that his little gag might pigeonhole him as a novelty act. "I don't want to dismiss it, but it was a weird kind of success...
Alas, yes. The standard test for strep may make your child gag, but after experimenting with less invasive tests, doctors concluded that they still need to swab kids' tonsils. Just tell 'em about the ice cream...
Hands clasped on knees is not the standard position for most Harvard-Shamrock interactions. By student accounts, liaisons happen more frequently in freshman dorm rooms, where friends hire strippers as a gag gift...
...light of these two previous missteps, the gag order is especially troubling. We firmly believe that no researcher should feel stifled by his or her University. Such a large and complicated grant necessitates transparent communication between the grant giver and the grant recipient. Disrupting that communication with a gag order is, at least, another annoying layer of red tape stymieing Kanki from fulfilling the stipulations of her grant. At most, as an official from the Association of American University Professors recently said, it constitutes an infringement on Kanki’s academic freedom...
University officials seem to be recognizing their ills, and both Hyman and SPH Dean Barry R. Bloom have said that the gag order will soon be rescinded. We applaud the administration for this move and encourage them to look for a solution that will provide both the oversight necessary and address Kanki’s grievances. If Harvard is to remain perched atop the research food chain, it must take steps to ensure that the balance between its own interests and the interests of its researchers never tips too far out of kilter...