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...English department. “I’d been trying my darndest,” he says ruefully. When he heard about a non-credit screenwriting workshop in Winthrop House, he tried his hand at that.The seminar, taught by Winthrop tutor Andrew Arthur, proved to be a godsend. Screenwriting provided a path for Smith not to “take [himself] so seriously.”Although Smith has since earned a place in Visiting Lecturer on African and African American Studies and on English and American Literature and Language Jamaica Kincaid’s English...
...Budget, Financial Planning, and Institutional Research to provide more support to budget applicants. But a greater degree of senior level scrutiny has meant more questions. This isn’t such a high price to pay for the perennially poorer schools—more administrative support is a godsend for the graduate schools of education and design, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has the highest endowment of any of the University’s schools. Perhaps that’s why they’ve griped the most about the increased oversight.I have little tolerance for complaints...
...when it comes to promotion—even among candidates with similar performance marks and equivalent hours logged. As sociological studies increasingly point to implicit biases, acknowledging that these trends exist is the first step in driving real change. Being able to talk about them here would be a godsend for those interested in promoting women’s equality. Where else will you find such a collection of intelligent, passionate people who are going to make their mark upon the world? Unfortunately, these discussions currently take place only on the fringe, in a handful of groups that...
...learn to soothe themselves. Deeply conflicted parents are instructed to ignore howls and wails until the allotted moment, at which point they can coo at--but not pick up--their babies before leaving them to suffer themselves to sleep. For parents who successfully Ferberize, the method is a godsend, if by way of purgatory. Even fans shudder at the recollection of those tear-stained nights, when every fiber of their bodies called them to console their unhappy babe...
Whichever comes first--the grandkids or the license--many grandparents view flying as a godsend for bonding with their children's children. "Flying is my special thing that I can pass on to them," says retired nurse Betty Vinson, 64, of Prince George, Va., who took up flying at 50. Vinson takes her three grandkids, ages 4 to 13, aloft regularly. From toddlerhood, they have loved it. "Years later," Vinson says, "my granddaughter would talk about flying right through clouds and how they were not solid but soft like smoke." The first time Gary Spoor, 48, took up Garrett...