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Harvard's rulebook for professors, Privileges and Benefits, doesn't stipulate that professors must perform any particular set of duties. There is no requirement, for example, that a professor teach students. To a large extent, professors work out their own responsibilities. "Full professors are generally expected to negotiate with the chairman," said Dwight H. Perkins, chairman of the Economics Department, many of whose professors do consulting work for outside firms. He added that a typical teaching load for a full-time professor is two full courses a year...
...shop markets some 170 games, the latest of which is a Tolkien imagining called War of the Ring. For $20 the Hobbit fancier gets three large maps of Middle Earth, and a densely printed 28-page rulebook with instructions like "To attempt Citadel Reduction, the Dark Power Player must expend one Shadow Point for each Nazgul present...
...cast is admirable. As a plumeless bird in a gilded turn-of-the-century cage, Alexander draws a poignant portrait of repressed freedom. As a dry rulebook tyrant, Kiley gives us a man whose only contact with the heart is through a stethoscope. Playgoers whose attention spans have been shortened by films and TV may get restless at Director George Keathley's pacing, which is meticulous and deliberate...
...were furious. Fumed Fisk: "It's a gawddamn shame to lose a gawddamn game because of that gawddamn call. I'm an infielder fielding the ball and he stands right in my way. If that's not interference, I'll ..." Indeed, the rulebook seems to support Boston's beef; section 7.09 (1) says unequivocally that a batter or runner should be called out automatically if "he fails to avoid a fielder who is attempting to field a batted ball...
...Pentagon plans to hold to its rulebook. The presence of homosexuals in the service, it argues, could impair recruitment; other young men might feel anxious about living in close quarters with them. In addition, Defense Department officials contend, homosexuals cannot command respect as officers or noncoms and are prey to blackmailers. Replies Matlovich, who had top-secret clearance in the 1960s while working as an electrician on Minutemen ICBM silos: "Who's going to blackmail...