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...liberty, the patriots who would take it away. As war approached, the British promised emancipation to any runaways who would join forces with the loyalists. When George Washington first appears in Schama's pages, it's not as the Father of His Country but as the recipient of a letter informing him of the many slaves who were hightailing it off his family properties...
After reading Newbold's essay, I was about to write a scathing letter asking why the general waited so long to make his views known. Then I realized that I never made my views known either. I strongly opposed the Iraq invasion, but like many others, I chose inaction. I stayed silent and let others protest. I'll never know whether I could have made a difference, but I regret not having tried...
...reason [the dossiers are] so fat is there’s always a ton of information about teaching.” DEPARTMENTAL DIFFERENCES Martin says there is variance in the level of engagement of senior faculty members in tenure cases. In some departments, every professor will write a detailed letter stating his opinions for appointments outside of his field. In other departments, especially larger ones, professors will write only brief letters when evaluating tenure candidates outside of their fields. “Some departments delegate a bit more than other departments do,” says Martin, who is also...
...inches thick. According to the Appointment Handbook for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it may enclose such documents as the department chair’s case statement, the candidate’s curriculum vitae and research statement, teaching evaluations, and over a dozen three-to-four page letters. Every senior faculty member in the candidate’s department writes a confidential letter which is considered in conjunction with reviews from outside scholars. Mailed back from across the nation and sometimes across the globe, the external letters respond to the 20 or so requests from departments for evaluations...
...explanation for the similarities as “deeply troubling and disingenuous.” And Random House assistant general counsel Min Jung Lee told Little, Brown that his firm is “certain that some literal copying actually occurred,” according to an April 22 letter from Lee obtained by The Crimson...