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...reality. But that effort has come at a cost. Some researchers in the MCB department have come to view the Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology department (SCRB) as the administration’s favorite child—a pet project initiated by Summers and loyally continued into the present by Hyman, according to one MCB professor.“They will go to extremes to make Stem Cell happy,” said the unnamed MCB Professor, citing the plan to move the laboratories of several MCB faculty out of the Sherman-Fairchild Building in order to make room...
...harder to get a job at all in academia,” the computer science professor said. “The good news is that the supply is large relative to the demand, so the quality ought to increase in all good dimensions.” At present, it is unclear whether or not the program will be temporary, but if the program does stay, some professors voiced worry that it may grow too large. “What you don’t want is a program that gets bigger and bigger and shifts away from faculty...
...slavery set in the 1680s and powerfully raises some of the most profound questions about human rights in our own time; thus, it was the appropriate closer for the evening.Quietly chilling evocations and depictions of women were painfully authentic and for all their beauty, threatened to deprive all present of any glimpse of hope had it not been followed with Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky’s “Night Music: Voice in the Leaves.” A piece of chamber music at times dark but mostly exuberant, it was commissioned in 2000 for the Silk Road Ensemble...
Germany's Nazi past continues to unsettle its present. Privileged clans and mighty industries alike have subjected themselves to public scrutiny and painful mea culpas over activities and associations before and during World War II. But the latest controversy links the poisoned mementos of Auschwitz to the ongoing global financial crisis in a still unraveling tale of leveraged buyouts, corporate hubris and financial humiliation. (See Auschwitz and other gloomy tourist destinations...
...think the army might step in if the security situation does not improve in time? I hope not, but much depends on how Zardari conducts himself as far as democracy is concerned, if he does things to strengthen democratic institutions. I don't think that the present leadership of the army is inclined to step out of its domain. But you can't really handle security by dismissing members of the government and imposing governor's rule. It is aggravating the situation actually and adding fuel to the fire...