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...cutout" tactic of using private citizens and front companies was apparently North's transparent method of keeping supplies flowing to the contras after the congressional ban. Although North had met regularly with contra leaders in El Salvador and Honduras, he withdrew from this visible activity after the military ban. Instead he dispatched Robert Owen, 33, a former congressional aide to Indiana Senator Dan Quayle, to maintain these contacts. In November 1985, U.S. embassy personnel in Honduras introduced Owen to high Honduran military officials as a White House envoy. In fact, Owen had no official Government position. Last year North...
...University must assume responsibility for incentivizing its professors to teach well. Teaching fellows (TFs) may be successfully motivated to teach well with monetary rewards, such as the new Derek C. Bok Awards for Excellence in the Teaching of Undergraduates, but this method is unlikely to work for professors. For TFs, good CUE ratings translate to job offers; for tenured faculty, this is irrelevant. (Moreover, in many departments in which there are generally more specific class requirements, ratings are irrelevant. If you must take Chem 60 to graduate, you will, regardless of its dismal CUE rating...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions—that is by the use of overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact, it wasn’t obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. This is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...popular denial method employed by the presidents of other universities—perhaps to smooth over any feathers that may have been ruffled by their short-lived candidacies—is to declare their jobs the best in academia...
...most common method used is the same procedure that produced Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned. Scientists remove the DNA material from any cell in the animal they wish to clone (usually a skin cell) and place it into an egg that has had its own DNA removed. That egg is electrically and chemically activated to begin dividing, and after a few days in the Petri dish, it is transplanted into the womb of a surrogate until birth...