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...Watkins claims the incentives otivating HBS junior faculty to engage in course development—especially labor-intensive field-based studies—are evaporating now that academics from outside the school hold sway over the promotion process...
...Muslims and Buddhists that administrators say are on campus, must attend chapel three mornings a week, but the service can feel as much like a pep rally as church. Stuffed onto risers and folding chairs in the event center, the young adults sing along, raise their arms and sway as student Christian rock and gospel groups perform. Leaning on a lectern in front of a towering video screen, campus pastor Chris Brown, in jeans, sneakers and a goatee, cuts from photos of A.P.U. students "who need our prayers" to a scene from the Jim Carrey movie Bruce Almighty...
...ready to amaze once again. His complete lack of selfishness and devotion to the team led him to convince the Pittsburgh athletic department not to engage in a full-scale media blitz, which has become commonplace among schools with Heisman finalists. He would let his play on the field sway the minds of the voters not his politicking off of it. And in the end, his ability to put up gaudy numbers while being double or triple-teamed and his knack for making the impossible catch seem routine made voters forget that he was a sophomore wideout...
...time of purchase, I had the car thoroughly inspected. They found no problems. I have not yet reached 50,000 miles and have already had to replace the guts of a back door due to its locking up; the oil cooler due to oil leaking; the sway-bar linkage on both sides; the power-steering and crankcase hoses; the window regulator; the right/left front axles; and the front brake rotors. I have wasted many hours taking the car to several respected service shops, including the dealer. Anyone want to buy my Passat? It has only "minor" problems...
...reference to posters or morality, but rather as the greatest political red herring of our time. Even the best discussions, and Tuesday’s was as about as good as I’ve heard, add little in terms of new insight and do very little to sway people who have already formed opinions. What interested me more than the usual arguments for or against abortion was rather the makeup of the pro-life contingent— overwhelmingly Republican and, based on an informal survey, Catholic...