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Although Assistant Professor of Psychology Nancy G. Kanwisher said she had "a wonderful time" at Harvard and has "great colleagues," she criticized the University's tenure policy, which she said treats junior faculty like "temp workers...
...watching a mid-1990s independent film: PARKER POSEY is in it. The poised but perky 28-year-old was the toast of last week's Sundance Film Festival, appearing in three films, one of which Miramax bought for $2 million. Posey's characters range from a wisecracking temp to a chain-smoking music publicist to a mentally ill woman with a Jackie O. fixation. Having been in at least 15 independent films since she left As the World Turns four years ago, Posey is something of an expert on the genre. "I'm not crazy about the way controversy...
...CLERICAL TEMP OF THE YEAR: White House factotum Craig ("Who hired this guy?") Livingstone, of Filegate...
During the fall campaign, Bob Dole said on TV that General Motors has been replaced as the nation's largest employer by a temp agency, and he asked, "That's a good economy? I don't think so." You don't have to be running for President to be fond of tossing off that pat rejoinder. The police in Madison, Wisconsin, for example, reported that when they ordered a young scofflaw to approach their squad car, he replied, "I don't think so," and tried to run. (The cops caught him by his fanny pack...
...mocking my responsibilities, denigrating my colleagues at the magazine and insulting my place of employment in a national newspaper. "Were you a full-time employee, this would get you fired--from here, and from almost any other editorial shop I can think of." And since I was a temp, I was implicitly dismissed...