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...universities are fantastically hierarchical places that are ever more caught up in competing with one another for faculty stars, whom they lure less with money and perquisites than with freedom to conduct research, which usually means light teaching loads and lots of graduate students to do scut work. Summers, scion of a family in the academic discipline with the highest pay and lowest workload of them all--economics--grew up and succeeded spectacularly in this culture. Harvard on his watch enthusiastically raided other universities for top talent. Its professors are among the highest paid in American academe; they teach only...
...than the last, each serving only to reinforce the public notion that he was trying to talk his way out of a situation that he had failed to manage properly. Bush's bold ideas and soaring rhetoric have come to seem a dodge, a way to avoid the serious scut work involved in actually running the country. "Maybe he should give his dad a call," the Republican Senator said, referring to Bush the Elder's meticulous foreign policy, "and find...
...policy decisions. He is independent to the point of being something of a loner. He takes on tough issues with little political upside--investigating drug running by Nicaraguan contras using CIA planes, investigating money laundering at the corrupt, Abu Dhabi--owned Bank of Credit and Commerce International, doing the scut work necessary to prove that no American prisoners of war were still being held by the Vietnamese...
...school graduation, she pulled him into a hug. Gore may be known to some as "Prince Albert," but his eldest child is known for never putting on airs. She's the kind of person who, Michael Kinsley, editor of the online magazine Slate, recalls, did not mind doing scut work as an editorial assistant...
...this era of big science, most of the research on the 1918 virus has been done on shoestring budgets by determined individuals. Kolata celebrates the obscure scientists who did the scut work, which included collecting tissue samples from bodies moldering in permafrost for eight decades. Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington didn't have to go far. While searching through the institute's museum of diseased body parts ("a Library of Congress of the Dead," says Kolata), Taubenberger found a lung scrap from an Army private who died on Sept...