Word: interest
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...rage again--specifically the meaning of that cryptic title. The Fifth Business refers to that all important character in a dramatic form that causes all the action to spiral out of control--without realizing it. Thus, you have the four "businesses"--the protagonist (Clinton), the antagonist (Starr), the love interest (Monica) and the figure presiding over the resolution (Hillary). And then you have the "fifth business"; in the Clinton scandal, it would be the secretary who unwittingly gave Monica Lewinsky that first file to deliver to a horny Bill. Look back at a past incident in your life. Or your...
ASSOCIATE Professor Bert Vaux, best known on campus as professor of Linguistics 80, "Dialects of English," teaches teaches phonology and field methods. But his real interest, he says, is endangered languages, such as Abxaz, Tigrinya, and Homshetsma, some of which are spoken by only one tribe or even one person and are in danger of dying out. But even with all of the classes he teaches, he says his work with endangered languages has to be done on the side, cautioning, "Once you choose a profession, you'll probably have to confine what you enjoy to the weekends...
However, as was my initial suspicion, and supported last week by a brief article in The Crimson's FM magazine, it appears that students' interest was not the first priority in this project; rather, the folders were originally created for a fundraising project (targeting alumni, our parents, Harvard budget-makers). You can see it in the tinsel-text, in the matte photographs, in the half-hearted attempt at a user's guide and especially in the crisp little compliments card...
Still, Fried says that it is important for those in academia to take an active interest in the political realm...
...professors with an interest in public affairs, there can be enormous benefit to real world experience," Edley says. "It helps cast teaching and research in a different light...