Word: joneses
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The process by which Jones became dean of admissions at M.I.T. looks from afar, at least, like American meritocracy working the way it is supposed to work. Once she was in the door and proving her competence, nobody gave a hoot about her résumé, which is why her fabrication...
When Jones applied for a job at M.I.T. in 1979, it would have been perfectly reasonable for the university to pay attention to her academic record. School officials had little else to judge her by. Twenty-eight years later, the situation is different. They know she's good at her...
Instead of dumping her, M.I.T. might want to consider giving Jones an honorary degree. We're coming up on the season when universities hand out these things with abandon, often to people who never saw the inside of a classroom at this, or sometimes at any, university. These folks get...
The TIME 100 is not a hot list. It's a survey not of the most powerful or the most popular, but of the most influential. Influence is hard to measure, and what we look for is people whose ideas, whose example, whose talent, whose discoveries transform the world we...
The bid by media titan Rupert Murdoch to buy Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, is big news on numerous fronts. There's the money, of course. He is offering $5 billion for a company whose shares fetched just $3 billion before word of his bid leaked...