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...popular Psychology and Sociology professors James Stellar and Paul Starr--have only reinforced the role of junior faculty as disposable commodities whose time spent teaching often serves to subsidize older professors who may then forsake the undergraduate community for their research. The Catch-22 of Harvard's publish-or-perish tenure policy is that it ultimately rewards a non-commitment to teaching...
...college students volunteer for a government experiment and become parents of a daughter with a unique gift: she can make things burst into flame with the force of her will. All of these fantasies are built on an armature of moral order. The good suffer, but the malefactors perish. "Beneath its fangs and fright wig," the author confesses, the horror tale is "as conservative as an Illinois Republican in a three-piece pinstripe suit...
...speeches have become more and more fatalistic. Just before becoming archbishop, he told TIME's Johannesburg bureau chief, Bruce Nelan, "I think the white ruling class is quite ready to do a Samson on us. That is, they will pull down the pillars, even if it means they perish in the process. They are really scared that we are going to treat them as they treated...
...over Florida, after 24 seemingly routine shuttle launches, was seen at first as an inexplicable aberration, akin to an act of God. It was widely assumed that a Government agency with NASA's can-do spirit and engineering wizardry would never permit six crew members and a schoolteacher to perish through some avoidable human error. Surely a mechanical glitch would be found and speedily fixed...
...title character of V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas is a version of the author's father, a West Indian journalist. Seepersad Naipaul publicly labeled the rite of goat sacrifice superstitious. He subsequently received a note in Hindi ordering him to perform the sacrifice or perish within the week, acquiesced, and then went mad. "He looked in the mirror one day," the novelist's mother recalled, "and couldn't see himself. And he began to scream." A siren of Britain's Roaring Twenties, Heiress Nancy Cunard appears in at least seven books under various guises. She "seems...