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...Assistant Attorney General Jack L. Goldsmith, who has drawn fire for his work in formulating Bush administration policies regarding the treatment of enemy combatants. Most importantly, by “eliminating the sense of scarcity” when it came to hiring professors, Kagan reduced the pressure to select the “best possible” candidate every time the faculty voted on a potential lateral offer. Since professors now trust that a number of hires will be made, there is less of a need to oppose any individual professor out of a desire to free up that spot...
...unusual challenge. Late last year, Wang was completing work on two films: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Princess of Nebraska, both adaptations of stories by Yiyun Li that focus on three generations of Chinese natives now living in America. Prayers, which was released in select art houses in September, tells the tale of an elderly father visiting his divorced daughter in America. Princess leaps forward a generation, depicting the challenges confronting a tech-savvy Chinese exchange student in Nebraska who discovers she's pregnant and flees to San Francisco. "I like the idea of a parallel showing...
...interview on the bus, McCain—who said she voted for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004—gave reasons why she thinks young, undecided voters should select her father in November as the next president of the United States. “I think that my dad is a uniter, and I’ve seen that on the campaign trail," she said. "I doubt that there are nearly as many Republicans supporting Senator Obama...
Permission to Dodge the Line. Southwest Airlines will offer "Fly By" priority lanes through security for Business Select and Rapid Reward A-List customers starting Oct. 17. Passengers at Baltimore/Washington International, Dallas Love Field, Phoenix Sky Harbor International, Orange County John Wayne, Denver International, San Francisco International and Los Angeles International should look for the orange and blue Southwest Fly By lane sign in the security area and present your boarding pass or A-List card to gain access to the special screening fast-lane. The program will roll out to other airports starting in November...
Home-Field Advantage. Clear, the company that pre-screens subscribers and gives them fast access through security in 18 U.S. airports, including Logan, JFK and Los Angeles International, has extended its service to select sports stadiums. Fans of the Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, and Denver Broncos can now sign up with Clear and get fast-pass access to their stadiums. To get a Clear card, customers pay $128 a year and submit to a one-time security screening, which includes iris and fingerprint images. It's a little Big Brother, but if you're the impatient sort...