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...Because administrators have been wary about discussing any impending layoffs, union leadership has been forced to go into information-seeking mode for the last several months with mixed results, bringing into sharp relief the necessity that collaboration be a two-way street. “Where there’s strong [University] leadership, it’s working,” says HUCTW executive board member Linda Kluz of labor-management discussions. “But where there’s no leadership, there is no information forthcoming...
...regularly swims to this day. “He has a very low heart rate, he does not get excited, and he’s extremely steady, deliberate, and non-reactive.” As Pilbeam observes of Smith, “You rarely see him in any mode other than calm...
...school is just a tense situation,” said Florrie Darwin, a former classmate and current lecturer at the Law School. “Instead of being unhappy as many people were, Eliot’s mode was just to do what he had to do and deal with the tension by making light of things, using humor as a way of helping everybody around him during...
...least one surprising product is bucking the trend. At a time when consumers are in a serious saving mode, why are sales of $100 yoga mats soaring...
Existing alongside the ethical mode of evaluation is the aesthetic mode. Aesthetics are value judgments about the world, about its beauty, its form, its order. There is a simple pleasure in pure appreciation without any justification—what Susan Sontag called the “erotics of art” in her “Against Interpretation”—but this too is part of the cloud of values and its modes of looking and observation...