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...When you have faculty, staff and students of the caliber that we're fortunate enough to have, you don't tell them what to do," Carnesale says. "It's your responsibility and obligation to try to convince them that what you're suggesting makes sense and they ought to give...
...Coetzee sums things up. But there are some facts the typical reader may not know that he ought to: in real life Dostoyevsky did not travel to Petersburg in 1869; he remained in Dresden. His stepson Pavel was not murdered by nihilists or anyone else. A pest and a spendthrift, he tormented the author all his life, and a standard scene from biographies has Pavel being forcibly kept from Dostoyevsky's deathbed. Nechaev did exist, and Dostoyevsky did transform him into a character in Demons, but the student his gang murdered in a celebrated crime was one Ivan Ivanov. Coetzee...
...recent editorial on junior faculty tenure ("Out-standing Junior Faculty Merit Tenure," Opinion, Nov. 16, 1994). While I agree that Harvard's tenure selection process is flawed, I feel that the chief problem is one which the editorial failed to address. In choosing which professors to tenure, Harvard ought to be more attentive to teaching ability...
House Speaker-to-beNewt Gingrichthinks the Republican Party ought to tolerate homosexuality -- which he called an orientation "like alcoholism is an orientation" -- and leave gay matters out of public policy, if an April interview he gave a Washington, D.C. paper that covers gay issues still holds water. In Friday's edition of The Washington Blade, the Georgia Republican said, "I think that on most things most days, the vast majority of practicing homosexuals are good citizens." The GOP's position on homosexuality, he said, "should be toleration . . . It should not be promotion and it should not be condemnation...
...make Asian products less competitive. "I don't buy it," she says, "because there are universal standards of human rights." < Child labor should be banned, and there should be an international standard for calculating fair wages, she says. More specifically, Sidney Jones of Human Rights Watch/Asia insists American executives ought to protest to the Indonesian government about the sentencing of Pakpahan and other union leaders...