Word: promotionism
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Alito was given a test. As part of applying for the job, he was asked to write an essay attesting to his ideological credentials. "I am and always have been a conservative," he wrote in uncharacteristically bald prose. With those eight words, along with a note that he was "particularly...
What concerns Wall Street is that Stern?s act is showing its age. In his home market of New York City, his ratings are down about 26% from the fall of 1999, according to Arbitron, and his ratings declined over this summer in just about every major market. Part of...
Still (and don’t tell the people who okayed my promotion), I didn’t really know how to edit a long story, or how to find the best angle. Watching and mimicking my co-chair Elizabeth W. Green ’06, one of the most...
A couple suffering great misfortune turns to desperate measures in “Fun with Dick and Jane.” With a terrific combination of Jim Carrey-isms and social satire, the title says it all. Dick (Carrey) and Jane (Tea Leoni), along with their bilingual son and maid...
Believe it or not, Environmental Studies just might save your life. John Stilgoe, the Robert and Lois Orchard professor in the History of Landscape, and professor of Environmental Studies in the VES department, relates a little-publicized Sept. 11, 2001 survival story: “Several of my former students...