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...REVIEW THE CHILDREN OF HURIN By J.R.R. Tolkien 313 pages...
...application last month. Another star, Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, recently met the same fate. These two are only the latest in a long string of highly qualified junior faculty members who were unable to meet the inordinately exacting standards of Harvard’s tenure review process. Harvard is famous for sending away even the most promising junior faculty to make their names elsewhere, and then occasionally bringing them back after they’ve won their Pulitzer Prizes or Fields Medals. While the tenure process is shrouded in mystery and data is hard to come...
...having mandatory minimums. The scale has tipped too far away from the former. It is high time for Massachusetts to examine at what cost mandatory minimum sentences are providing consistency, judicial efficiency, and the appearance of a “tough on crime stance.” Such a review may not be the most politically wise choice, as reducing punishments is a political hornets’ nest. But it is a sound policy and morally the right thing to do. We commend Gov. Patrick for having the fortitude to stick his neck out in the name of justice...
...more than half of the political contributions made by Harvard professors and staff in the first quarter of 2007, according to an analysis of federal disclosure data released Monday. The $78,000 that the Illinois senator raised from Harvard affiliates underscores the depth of support the former Harvard Law Review president and University of Chicago law lecturer enjoys among Harvard professors. Obama’s chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, took in less than half of Obama’s Harvard total, raising over $33,000 from University affiliates. The other major recipient...
...After the service, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine announced that he is appointing an independent panel to review the authorities' handling of the massacre, to look at how police and university officials responded to the shootings and whether they had missed earlier warning signs that Cho was troubled. Meanwhile, the shootings had a ripple effect on campuses across the U.S. Universities and schools in at least 10 states were forced to lock down or evacuate on Tuesday, some after discoveries of notes that alluded to the shootings and threatened worse violence and others after reports of suspicious activity. On Tuesday evening...