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This new department need not be a mammoth undertaking. The internal bureaucratic structure would include a department chair, a department chair’s assistant, a PE registrar, full time teacher-coaches, and part-time “guest” instructors. Although Harvard does not publicize faculty salaries, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2002 that the average salary for a TA at a private university was $64,149. Assume a faculty of 50 (slightly less than three times as many as are hired to teach Wellesley’s 2,300 undergraduates) paid at this rate...
...terrific health benefit in tests with mice [Nov. 13]. Then I read, "You would need to drink more than 100 glasses of red wine a day to get as much resveratrol as those mice got," and I thought, Wow, the good news just keeps on coming! Paul Rudder Mammoth Lakes, California...
...terrific health benefit in tests with mice [Nov. 13]. Then I read, "You would need to drink more than 100 glasses of red wine a day to get as much resveratrol as those mice got," and I thought, Wow, the good news just keeps on coming! Paul Rudder Mammoth Lakes, California Separation Anxiety Peter Galbraith's article "the case for dividing Iraq" [Nov. 13] outlined the best solution for ending the Iraq war. The attempt to create a unified, democratic Iraq is doomed to failure. Modern Iraq as we know it has never been politically unified; religious and tribal factionalism...
PAUL RUDDER Mammoth Lakes, Calif. Setting the Record Straight Wrong Guard The Nov. 13 story "The Case for Dividing Iraq" included a photo of an Iraqi solider standing watch in Baghdad. The caption mistakenly identified him as a U.S. soldier...
Nearly four decades and many rereadings later, I know better than to suppose that anyone fully penetrates Pynchon's intentions, not in V., not in his short masterpiece The Crying of Lot 49 and certainly not in his mammoth new book, Against the Day (Penguin Press; 1,085 pages). Of course this makes me not just a Pynchon reader but practically a Pynchon character, another of his comically put-upon quest figures who journey into mysteries that engulf them. Even that is part of Pynchon's grand scheme, which is to make the experience of reading his work a demonstration...