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...only fitting. Kirby has always been eclipsed by Summers, his tenure as dean judged in light of his relationship with the president, his ability to lead compromised by Summers’ heavy hand. The mild-mannered Kirby, who has always been more likely to speak in Chinese proverbs than in arrogant absolutes, has not been a lightning rod for Faculty criticism, but he has been the subject of much grumbling, often accused of inefficacy, and blamed—perhaps rightly so—for FAS stumblings...
...broad theme in your work seems to be a mild form of optimistic technological determinism, in contrast to the typical 1980s cyberpunk dystopian future. Your model of the Bitchun Society in “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” in particular seems to be, if not quite a utopia, at least a world in which boredom is one of the biggest problems for most people. Do you think today that our technology is gradually narrowing the possible outcomes into a miasma of mediocrity...
...reserve-holding libraries—Cabot, Fine Arts, Fung, Harvard-Yenching, Lamont, Littauer, Loeb Music, Tozzer, and the Quad—upped the penalty for late items from one cent per minute to two cents per minute. While the general reaction seemed to be one of dismissal, or mild surprise followed by dismissal, the doubling of the penalty was not taken so lightly by all. “That’s horrible,” said one junior in Winthrop House, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution from HCL. “I thought we could...
...such, was destined to clash with faculty. And humanities professors had long simmered about Summers? perceived prejudice against the softer sciences - he had reportedly told a former humanities dean that economists were known to be smarter than sociologists, so they should be paid accordingly. The brusque handling of mild-mannered Kirby?s departure was, in the minds of many, an insult too many, with rumors of dismissal leaking from the President?s Office and preempting the customarily genteel resignation process. ?If anyone could have eased tension between Summers and the faculty, it was Dean Kirby,? says Matory. ?But he even...
...salinity could change the density of surface water enough to prevent it from sinking as it cools and returning south to the tropics where it can replenish ocean currents like the Gulf Stream. And because the Gulf Stream is the only reason much of Western Europe has so mild and temperate a climate, such a shutdown of that conveyor belt of heat could be nothing short of catastrophic. Oceanographers reported late last year the ominous news that one element of that family of currents has slowed 30% since 1992. It's not clear yet that this is the beginning...