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...implied that the academic community was overwhelmingly in favor of secret deliberations regarding faculty hirings and promotions. In fact, a good many academics would welcome a more open evaluation process. The prevalence of cronyism and prejudice in faculty advancement has diminished in recent years, but the only way to stamp it out entirely is to make these peer-review deliberations open to those with a legitimate involvement...
...Supreme Court that remains the primary concern. As Greenberg says, "It sets the direction and tone for courts all across the country." And it is the high-court selections that are expected to give the next President his greatest opportunity to put a definitive stamp on the nation's legal system: five of the nine present Justices are over 70 years...
...awful? It means being introduced to a woman who wrote "the definitive cinematic study of Gummo Marx." It means being offered unproducible scripts, including a musical-comedy treatment of the Guyana massacre. It means being solicited to join committees for Soviet dissidents, to help stamp out leukemia, to donate a personal item to a celebrity auction for the blind ("Somebody told me you wear a truss. An old truss would be just wonderful"). It means being asked to sit for an interview on "the shallow indifference of wealthy celebrities." And everywhere there are autograph freaks. A young woman asks, "Would...
Granville began tinkering with investment studies during World War II, when he battled boredom while stationed in the Marshall Islands by writing two books on stamp investments. He had started collecting stamps at the age of six, and later published a philatelic market letter that lasted for seven years...
...function of the huge congress was more formal than real. It was to rubber-stamp decisions already made by the party's leaders and carefully advertised in advance. Still, every effort was being made to make it a showcase event and to prepare the country for the changeover. The congress was also expected to consider new laws on marriage, income tax and foreign investment, and was likely to approve a measure limiting the length of time one individual can hold any given public office. In a highly unusual gesture of openness, the foreign press was invited to attend some...