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According to David E. Gee, one of the consultants involved, a common concern was that the district would select a new leader who was simply the opposite of outgoing superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, whose controversial administration was unpopular among some parents and administrators...
...taken home by Columbia University’s Lee C. Bollinger. Median pay and benefits for the heads of 184 public research universities was $427,400 in the 2007-2008 academic year, up 7.2 percent from the year before. Ohio State University’s E. Gordon Gee, whose $310,000 bonus announced earlier this month brought his total compensation for last year to $1,346,225, was the highest-earning executive at a public university. When the bonus was approved, Ohio State Board of Trustees chairman G. Gilbert Cloyd justified the high executive salary as a means of boosting...
...times it seems like the “gee whiz!” factor inherent in these technological breakthroughs outweighs their substance. Given all the problems in the world, do we really need a tee shirt with animated dancing hamsters printed on it? In some sense, it’s reprehensible that we could reach such dizzying heights in optics in the same world where millions of children die each year of malaria...
...think there is such a difference in the way insurance companies cover physical illnesses like heart disease and mental illnesses like schizophrenia? First of all, it's pretty easy to see that people kind of frown on mental illness. If your neighbor has a heart condition, it's, "Gee, poor Jane, she has to take care of her husband." But if the neighbor has a manic-depressive son, you're kind of mad at them because the kid misbehaves. Unless you're a very, very considerate neighbor that's gotten close to the family, you can't quite understand...
...Gee, I don’t know. If you hang around the pool long enough, you’re probably going to meet him. I’m sure he’s pretty busy with various obligations, but if he does go for the next Olympics, he’s going to have to be in the pool, so he won’t be too hard to find...