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...Rock, she plays Liz Lemon, head writer of The Girlie Show, a decently rated, woman-oriented sketch show. Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), an executive at NBC's corporate parent General Electric who made his career selling GE ovens, decides it needs more male viewers. So he forces Liz to hire Tracy Jordan (SNL alum Tracy Morgan), a wild and (literally) crazy comic who has starred in such Wayansesque hit movies as Who Dat Ninja? and Black Cop, White Cop ("One does the duty. One gets the booty"). Soon the show has been retitled TGS with Tracy Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Not Adjust Your Set | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...instruction.This is all a fair start. A sustained effort to improve the pedagogical resources available to Harvard’s instructors will do no harm. But the curricular review continues to ignore the most fundamental reason why teaching at Harvard falls short: the University does not do enough to hire and retain good teachers. Year in, year out, Harvard puts poor instructors at the helm of some of the College’s most important foundational courses, while letting some of its best instructors slip away.Take Economics 1010b, the intermediate macroeconomic theory course required of all economics concentrators who lack...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Shopping for Teachers | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...class, History of Science 177, “Stories Under the Skin: The Mind-Body Connection in Modern Medicine.”And this year, Darwin will make a triumphant return to Harvard: Mendelsohn used to teach a Darwin Core class, but professor Janet Browne, a new (female!) hire who somehow managed to survive a Summers-era tenure process—will teach Historical Study B-45, “The Darwinian Revolution” in the spring. It turns out she was more fit for the Harvard environment than Larry.Potential concentrators should try out a class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History and Science | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...advantaged” because the pool of early applicants is disproportionately affluent and white. Most strong minority and low-income applicants apply in January. Their secondary schools, where the advisee-to-councilor ratio is astronomical, where most students don’t have the money to visit colleges or hire private councilors, and where bureaucracy likely impedes the processing of applications, are less likely to provide students the information and infrastructure needed to apply early. Besides mitigating some of the advantages of the privileged, the College plans to further attract minority and low-income applicants by using November and early...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Early Unfairness | 9/13/2006 | See Source »

Competitors could certainly copy the Xilion, but building the machines to produce high volumes?Swarovski says its loose-stone production is in the double-digit billions?is the obstacle. "You could hire 200,000 people in China, and they would do the same quantity for probably a lower price," says Buchbauer. "But you could never, ever come out with the same quality. You could never achieve the same standardization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cutting Edge | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

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