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...quoted in the report voiced the same concerns, worrying that a focus on teaching may prove detrimental to their younger colleagues’ careers.“There are still pockets of the University where winning the Levenson award for teaching as a junior faculty member is considered the kiss of death with respect to promotion,” the report quotes one anonymous senior professor as saying.The result, according to the report, is that Harvard’s academic offerings can alienate students from classroom learning rather than engaging them.“Concluding in turn that many faculty...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report Affirms Value of Teaching | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

Moments after the curtain has risen, a puckish young man called Eugene Morris Jerome bounds into his Brooklyn family home, shaking with cold, and tells his grandfather an impromptu joke about the weather: "I saw a man kissing his wife on the corner, and they got stuck to each other. Mr. Jacobs, the tailor, is blowing hot steam on them." His grandfather, as always, sees nothing funny in Eugene's whimsy. Weeks later, Eugene moves out to start a new life as a comedy writer for network radio in Manhattan. His grandfather, ever wary of affection, wonders whether he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Simon: Reliving A Poignant Past | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...There are still pockets of the University where winning the Levenson award for teaching as a junior faculty member is considered the kiss of death with respect to promotion,” the report quotes one anonymous senior professor as saying...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report: Faculty Pay Should Be Linked to Teaching | 1/24/2007 | See Source »

...more awkward first date moments, such as ordering the high-ticket item on the menu, without abandoning the comfort of your pajamas. Animated figures called avatars stand in and react like you would when the waiter dumps hot soup into your virtual lap. The avatars move, speak, and even kiss goodnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Internet Dating 2.0 | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...KISS OF DEATH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slick Spy Gear | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

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