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...youngest tenured faculty in his department, reflecting a broader trend “to look for our tenure level hiring toward scholars just coming into prominence at earlier points in their careers than has been typical for Harvard,” according to History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon...
...Gordon added that the department’s last two external hires, Daniel L. Smail from Fordham University and Henrietta Harrison from Leeds University, also reflect the recent trend of appointing younger faculty—a practice encouraged by both former University President Lawrence H. Summers and former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby...
Magical Elves took much the same approach to this spring's Top Chef. Fox's Hell's Kitchen (Mondays, 9 p.m. E.T.), on the other hand, is more about heat than flavor; lobster-faced British chef Gordon Ramsay puts a group of cooks through boot camp, overseeing them with such helpful advice as "Move your arse!" Compared with Top Chef, the show places less emphasis on menu planning and presentation than on the chaos of running a kitchen--especially with a half-crazed Brit chasing...
...seems to be addressing. He’s neither as strong nor as sacred as he might claim. However, Cash’s denial of his fraility changes into an outright confession during “If You Could Read My Mind,” a retooled Gordon Lightfoot song and the climax of the album. The lyrics describe how one might imagine a lover as beyond perfect, “just like an old-time movie ‘bout a ghost from a wishing well.” Where Lightfoot sang the lyrics with patent sarcasm, Cash treats...
This time around, things are different, says Gordon. "Atlantic City wasn't ready," he says as he eats lunch at Evo, a white-linen restaurant at Trump Plaza that, Gordon observes, is a marked improvement over the joints he used to frequent in the mid-'90s. "Right now, Atlantic City is the same as Las Vegas was 15 years ago," he says. "This is as close as I've come to a sure thing. It's no gamble at all." Which is why he's betting the house...