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...sure. Although I did see one guy who was murdered and dumped in a bathtub. He decomposed in there for an awful long time, and there was nothing easy about that cleanup, because he'd been there a month. There was all of this fluid, and the drainage system was blocked. It's not always easy to clean up a scene just because it's on a nice ceramic surface...
...gone. The university has a strict tenure policy that often involves passing over junior professors in favor of more established professors from other universities, effectively driving junior professors away to other institutions after a few years at Harvard. Often, the junior professors who are entirely disregarded by the tenure system are among the best teachers Harvard has to offer. With more esteemed professors out of the limelight, young professors will have increased opportunities to showcase their talent. Allowing qualified junior professors to serve in more prestigious positions due to vacancies of senior faculty will, in the end, benefit students. What?...
...This requirement was originally set up to empower patients, who can now assess their chances of getting pregnant on the basis of a particular clinic's success rate. But the reporting system has evolved into being a way to monitor a clinic's number of multiple births, which are more dangerous - and more costly - for mother and baby...
...preeminent universities would inspire other schools to follow suit, in the same way that Harvard’s financial aid initiative last year inspired Yale and Stanford, among others, to implement similar policies. The world of higher education is so diverse that ranking schools according to a standardized system fails to provide an accurate representation of many schools. These rankings have become increasingly important in many applicants’ decisions, and likely lead to students to make decisions that are not in their best academic interests. While Harvard should remove itself from these rankings, it should continue to provide applicants...
...would not put it past this President and his team to have calculated that this engorged House bill was precisely what the system would yield; that the Republicans would oppose it out of both principle and politics; that there would come a moment, once all the Old Bulls had had their say, for the new President to ride in to the rescue and actually fulfill his promise of "change we can believe in by turning this into a bill we can actually live with. Maybe he is building to a denouement, when a President who promised to make hard decisions...