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...exemplary status on eight of the criteria, followed by Duke with seven, and Dartmouth with six. Patricia P. Jones, vice provost for faculty development and diversity and a biology professor at Stanford, attributes some of the disparities in faculty satisfaction to differences in the relationship between schools and their parent universities. “Schools within Harvard are very independent,” says Jones. “At Stanford, we have seven schools, but the schools are not as independent of the central university. All of the policies that pertain to faculty pertain to all faculty...
...gold or white ensembles so perfectly, you can almost hear the frocks whisper thank-you as they cling to her. But the bloodshot eyes are the giveaway to the character's venality. Her daemon is another: it's an ill-tempered monkey, with whom she has an abusive parent relationship. In one of the film's sharpest, most surprising scenes, Mrs. C. slaps it in anger, then promptly caresses and coos to it. Mummy hits you, Mummy loves you. Since that the daemon is an essential part of her personality, the flare-up gives hints of schizophrenia, amounts to self...
...Catholic League so peeved? According to its president, William Donohue, it’s because “unsuspecting parents who take their children to see the movie may be impelled to buy the three books as a Christmas present —and no parent who wants to bring their children up in the faith will want any part of these books...
...UC—already has fallen into irrelevance by its ridiculous cheerleading to allow college financing to subsidize underage drinking on campus. To learn, however, that beer, wine, and liquor compose the bulk of expenses for UC-funded parties was startling. It makes me glad as a parent of a Harvard sophomore that the College sought to cut off the booze spigot from term-bill funding. But why expend so many inches in print to criticize the UC for being weak-kneed simply to be able to continue to spend funds from term bills lavishly on beer, wine, and liquor...
...During an eight-hour court proceeding on Thursday, it emerged that a school secretary had been the first to raise the alarm. Teachers have alleged that Gibbons was the victim of a staffer trying to discredit the school rather than an offended parent...