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...advocate for female and minority candidates deeply involved in the tenure process. While the good intentions of such a post are clear, everyone involved in the tenure process must become advocates for such candidates. By delegating this responsibility to an associate dean, it lets the administration off the hook too easily, when being cognizant of diversity should be central to the mission of the tenure committee. Furthermore, we worry that such a deanship might unfairly mark affirmative action hires as somehow less deserving of a prestigious post. All tenure decisions hinge on a determination of what unique perspectives a candidate...
...it’s a disaster for breezy communities everywhere, especially if places like Harvard College keep swallowing the bait—hook, line and sinker—from slick wind marketers claiming their only concern is for the environment...
...sound in their sprawling nature. The other persisting problem on the album is the even further emerging figure of Bono. With his personal celebrity aside, he is increasingly becoming the central musical figure of the band, with his vocal twists and turns of phrase more memorable than any guitar hook or bassline, recalling the later albums of another band fronted by a singly-named poster boy—the Police...
...though, the focus is on Yale, and on securing Harvard’s first 10-win season in over 100 years. Afterward, Fitzpatrick will finally turn his full attention to the agents ringing the phone off the hook. He’ll wait for the calls from the senior bowls that will give him national exposure...
...mono- and poly- versions of each. Lyrically, Abattoir is the more conventional-sounding in this sense, though it’s never exactly clear if the words—the opening “Get Ready for Love,” for example, is built around the simple hook “Praise Him!”—are bolstered or subverted by the (effectively) overblown gospel choir behind them. Similarly, “Let the Bells Ring” centers on the repeated couplet “Let the bells ring / He is the real thing?...