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...increasing proliferation of administrators and committees (which take away valuable energy from teaching and research) is perhaps a case of too many cooks. But worse still is that each cook was given a different utensil and put incommunicado in a separate room. Few faculty I have spoken with object to serving on committees when their tasks are meaningful; but when it becomes obvious that the administration hopes only for committee members to rubber-stamp their decisions, the experience becomes frustrating and deeply insulting...
...object of the game,” according to the website of New York’s Bridgehampton Polo Club, “is to move the polo ball down-field, hitting the ball through the goal posts for a score.” Four riders per team play at a time on a field 300 yards long and 160 yards wide—the largest playing field of any professional sport, according to Bridgehampton...
...your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give C’s. How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for—a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A’s. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in the top, “Illustrate...
...rooms that will bear the brunt of the construction noise have become less desirable in housing lotteries. Students also object to the size of the building, and they complain that they weren’t informed about the plans earlier...
...unoriginal ones." In 1999 when he took a job as a 3-D artist to pay the bills at game company Namco, the Tokyo-based Takahashi didn't even own a PlayStation, that near ubiquitous Japanese device. He was an art-school graduate with a passion for sculpting bizarre objects like goat-shaped flowerpots. Living in a tactile world, he didn't see the point in a virtual one. Why jump into a pixilated version of a car when you've got a real one sitting in your driveway? But then the sticky-ball idea rolled, fully formed, into Takahashi...