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...Their promotion will still be based on their dossiers and not whether the financial situation warrants another hire,” he said...
...oddly inevitable, if you look back on it,” says Maya R. Jasanoff ’96, speaking out about her recent hire as an associate professor in theHistory department. Jasanoff notes that while she didn’t always have “an incredibly strong sense” of what profession she would pursue after college, academia “was always one of the options.” Following her post-doc work, Jasanoff taught at the University of Virginia. She applied for a tenure track position at Harvard in 2006. Jasanoff?...
...Cuban bought the NBA Dallas Mavericks for $280 million. He is known for screaming at referees while sitting courtside. In 2002, he was fined $500,000 by the NBA for, among other things, saying of a ref: "I wouldn't hire him to manage a Dairy Queen." As a publicity stunt, Cuban filled in for one day as a manager at a Texas Dairy Queen...
...final line of Kinsley's essay was telling. He implied that unless we spread the wealth around, we'll turn into a Colombia or Mexico, where people "live behind locked gates and hire guards to protect their family from kidnapping." Is Kinsley suggesting that to ensure their own safety the better-off should, via the government, pay protection money to the less well off? This would be playing with public money a similar game to the one rich people in banana republics play with their personal money. Mark A. Mendlovitz, Los Angeles...
...Several days passed after word that Obama wanted Emanuel as his chief of staff before Emanuel actually accepted the job. Some observers expressed frustration that he seemed to be dragging out the first high-profile hire of an incoming Administration whose campaign had been respected for its notable lack of drama; others speculated that Emanuel was torn, because he had spoken openly of wanting to follow Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. But Emanuel's path to the Speakership wasn't guaranteed. More important, his wife and three children live in Chicago. Friends say Emanuel struggled with the idea...