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...nobody would say that the situation was rosy, even in the heyday of the 90s. Former-Associate Professor of Government Bonnie Honig was denied tenure in the spring of 1997 despite lavish praise and recommendations from her department and peers in the field. Fifteen female senior faculty members wrote another infamous letter, this time to President Rudenstine, insisting that he reconsider the denial on the grounds that Honig may have been at a disadvantage because of her gender. No action was taken, and in the summer of 1997, Honig accepted a position at Northwestern University, where she now holds...
...stage, embracing everything from puppetry to African dance. Everywhere in the culture, meanwhile, children's entertainment is crossing over to adult audiences and gaining mainstream cachet, from Harry Potter books to Pixar animation. London's National Theatre this year scored one of its biggest successes with a lavish, dense and sensationally entertaining two-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's young-adult trilogy His Dark Materials. In a world in which Madonna writes children's books and hip grownup film critics put Shrek on their 10 Best lists, it should have come as no surprise that a musical for little kids...
...roguish air with Taha's rough vocal. Despite some commercial success, Taha's mix of traditional and electronic instrumentation and beats, and his habit of singing in Arabic, has often led critics to classify his records as fusion or world music, a label that confounds him. Taha makes lavish use of traditional Arab instruments like the oud lute, and string and wind sections, driven forward by electric bass and guitars, rock backbeats, and even the odd hip-hop influence. "When the Beatles or Led Zep used Eastern influences or instruments, it was said to add ambiance or texture," he muses...
...Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health, he argues that so many medical experts accept money from pharmaceutical firms, it is nearly impossible at times to determine when advice is truly independent. Kassirer lays out the extent of the largesse--all of it legal--that drug companies lavish on doctors, from ski vacations to thousands of dollars in consulting fees in return for little or no true consulting. He believes that disclosing conflicts of interest is not enough. "Even if you find out what the conflicts are, you don't know how to interpret them," he says...
...Crain criticizes West’s writing style for what he sees as its “eccentricities of tone.” In particular, West is very ready to lavish praise on friends—he lauds the Wachowski brothers, who cast him as “Counselor West” in The Matrix sequels for their “deep democratic vision” and Tavis Smiley, on whose National Public Radio West is a habitual guest, as “the most influential democratic intellectual in mass media of the younger generation—and possibly...