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...lecturers and preceptors. The report does dismiss a dual-track tenure system, which would create one set of appointments only for research and another only for teaching. But there is another solution, which we have advocated in the past: hiring top-notch teachers for full-time teaching posts and renewing their contracts indefinitely based on their teaching performance.Currently, Harvard does not allow lecturers or teaching fellows to remain at Harvard for more than eight years. This archaic rule has a negative payoff: individuals who are hired for and excel at teaching students must leave regardless of their pedagogical ability...
...Kagan worked to expand the faculty, she also tapped Smith Professor of Law Martha L. Minow and a committee of professors to renew the Law School’s century-old first-year curriculum. Kagan often hosted informal dinner meetings at her home to discuss the curricular proposals...
...Beckham today is still a marquee name, but he's no longer a marquee player. Even at age 31, he's lost his place in the Real Madrid starting lineup and in England's national squad, and Real had announced they would not renew his contract in the summer. Indeed, skeptics have long suggested that Real had signed Beckham from Manchester in the first place less for his on-field ability than for his global glamour-icon status, which would help the team sell replica gear all over the world. To be fair, Beckham earned his keep as a rather...
...that the CIA doesn't understand the uses of technology. It's just that it understands its limits. Data mining works well if Osama bin Laden decides to renew his Visa card or cash in his frequent flier miles. But bin Laden, like most terrorists, has dropped off the digital grid. To find him you need a warm body, not just cool gear...
...about Saddam Hussein's WMD program will be remembered by historians as a tragic snow job - with Powell, perhaps, among those who was snowed most. But whatever one makes of him as an intelligence analyst, his judgment as a veteran of ground warfare looks increasingly wise. Powell's comments renew the debate, raging since the start of the Iraqi war, between those, like Powell, who believe wars are best fought with overwhelming and punishing force, and those who thought that the war would be a cakewalk. Everyone knows now that the U.S. went into Iraq way too light, with...