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...students fill out their course evaluations. One effective way that professors and teaching fellows have encouraged evaluations is to send more personalized e-mails to their students and to tailor evaluation questions to their specific classes. This can make students’ lives easier and shows them the real stake that faculty have in evaluations. The best solution, however, would be for the administration to give students real incentives to turn in their evaluations. Withholding grades until students finish their evaluations would be an excellent way of ensuring that few classes see insufficient response rates...
...year-old father had been convinced by unidentified advisers to reverse his fiercely independent, family control of the series, and sell it to outside business interests. For its part, Hachette Livre has made it clear in press reports that it views its acquisition of the 60% Asterix stake as a legitimate, above-board transaction with Albert Uderzo and Anne Goscinny; it meanwhile refused to comment on what it considers a private family dispute...
...decision to sell evidently infuriated Sylvie Uderzo, who until recently was the director general of Editions Albert-René, and still owns the remaining 40% stake in it. "Today, I'm rebelling (because) Asterix is my paper brother," began her letter to Le Monde. "[Now] I find myself entering into battle against perhaps Asterix's worst enemies: the men of industry and finance...
...beyond the bottom line, the internecine brouhaha is also a fight over the best way to protect a beloved character who has attained cultural icon status in France - not least because Asterix endearingly personifies countless French traits that test outsiders' patience. What's at stake is the very appeal of the brainy but diminutive Asterix, super-sized Obélix, and canine chum Dogmatix (Idéfix in the original French...
...believe it will happen by mid-February - Summers says Obama will push next to stabilize the banks and the housing market. The Administration is weighing approaches that range from buying up banks' bad assets or guaranteeing the solvency of banks that hold them to taking an even larger ownership stake in the institutions and then pouring more cash directly into them. None of the options, Obama Administration officials admit, are ideal...