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...state of upheaval going on,” Thomas said. “And he’s already resigned.” TRYING TIMES Underlying many opinion pieces nationwide is a perception that Summers cared more about students than professors did. “Senior professors can shunt off the more tedious jobs, like teaching freshmen or grading papers, to low-caste graduate students or visiting lecturers,” Tierney wrote. “That’s why Summers had to push them to teach survey courses and other basics.” Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich...
...Part of the reason that the riots were so difficult for many to comprehend here is that they cut against so many ingrained prejudices and preconceptions about America and Europe. We, and not the Europeans, are supposed to be racist, stagnant, and repressive. We are the ones who supposedly shunt away our unwanted and care only for certain types of citizens. We are the ones that segregated the races. Most of all we, and not our enlightened European brethren, are the violent and the crude. Reality, however, even long-suppressed and denied reality, has a nasty habit of rearing...
...aides say he is growing increasingly worried that the U.S. is manipulating the electoral process to limit Shi'ite influence. White House and State Department officials are concerned that in a completely open election, Shi'ites might emerge with an enormous majority that would dangerously shunt Sunnis and Kurds aside. The National Security Council's Iraq point man, Robert Blackwill, came up with the idea of uniting members of the former and current interim governments, made up largely of exiles chosen for their ethnic balance and pro-American attitudes, into a single slate. That would give Washington's favored candidates...
...shunt more oxygen to the muscles, but it comes at a price. "If you take too much EPO," explains WADA's Dr. Gary Wadler, professor of clinical medicine at New York University, "the production of red blood cells is excessive, and the blood becomes viscous--it's like sludge." In the late 1980s, when EPO became available, nearly 20 European cyclists died of causes that some experts suspect were linked...
...needs real classes or real travel or real service projects. All of these options come with significant costs that proponents of the plan—for whatever reason—seem all too quick to ignore. Overstressing students or their bank accounts is not an acceptable way to shunt Harvard College into schedule parity with the rest of the University...