Word: remarkable
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...size that has been imposed by the administration; this may be so, but my fellow junior Faculty and I certainly never saw any evidence of such a constraint during the early 1990's. What we did see was a Faculty that regularly demurred at conferring tenure even on remark-ably well-qualified senior scholars at other institutions who were reviewed for possible appointment at Harvard--a practice that resulted in the department's preserving its small size even when it had clearly been authorized by the administration to recruit additional tenured Faculty...
...There were few takers then. Now that he knows firsthand what the job costs and what it demands, is he still so eager to win it? Gore says he wants the job more than ever, but even that confession is hard to make. "It's probably an impolitic remark," he says. "But it's true...
What Rudenstine's remark--buried 12 pages into a sweeping 14 page speech--doesn't reveal is that the first such outpost could be only months away. The University has drafted rules for such an endeavor, and Rudenstine has assembled a committee to approve any proposals...
Kacholia laughs off the Clooney suggestion, but is quick to remark that "he's a cutie." Jason S. Cassidy '98 and Carrie A. Jablonksi '98, who are the co-chairs of the committee which is selecting the speaker, would not comment on specific names, a policy which was also the standard line from other committee members. Diane Jellis, who works in the Classes and Reunions Office, did not return repeated phone calls inquiring about the selection process...
...Mengers are now friends, Dunne attributes his downfall partly to a wisecrack he made about her and her husband. "I was blackballed after that," he remembers. "It was hilarious at the time." (He won't repeat it.) Mengers counters that she doesn't even know what the remark was. "How can you blackball a producer? It's ridiculous," she says. "You can't tell a star or director what to do. I wish I had had that kind of power. He uses it as a convenient excuse." Asked if people gloated over Dunne's fall, Mengers says something even worse...