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Brett Flehinger, an American historian who won the Levenson award for outstanding teaching last year, is at California State University-San Bernadino, and many students miss Flehinger’s flair. He explains that he was at Harvard on a one-year lecturer contract here, and that he was always realistic about his future not being in Cambridge. But with a Harvard Ph.D. and three years of teaching experience, he is familiar with the culture of junior faculty. “It’s a research institute. The reality is that’s what they tenure on. It?...
Although 75% of the workers are on 12- to 18-month contracts, many bring families with them. Fleming's wife and kids joined him on one-year assignments in Rio and Washington but are staying behind in London while he is in Seattle. As a former Royal Navy communications expert, he is used to the travel and knows it helps his resume, but he sees the downside too. "If you have a young family, it's hard to leave them behind, but moving can be an unstable life for them," says Fleming. The company often helps by giving housing...
Olson, current manager of Unofficial Publications, which publishes the Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard, will begin his one-year term as the head of the student-run corporation...
...seeks to put before voters a ballot initiative in November 2002 that would replace the current bilingual program with a one-year immersion crash course for students who do not speak English. Currently, if there are at least 20 students of limited English proficiency who reside in a Massachusetts school district, that district must provide a three-year program that brings those students to competency in English. At the same time, it must provide additional native language instruction in other subjects, such as math and science, so that students do not fall behind their peers in learning course content...
...While neither the FBI nor the intelligence agencies have specific information that the bin Laden organization plans to attack then, analysts believe terrorists may find the moment irresistible. But U.S. officials also recognize that a strike may not come that day, just as nothing happened on Oct. 12, the one-year anniversary of the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole...