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...holder of an endowed chair leads a tenuous life and must often take cover behind a shield of anonymity. The unknown professor who took Summers’ apologies to be disingenuous, the “senior faculty member” who speculated on his future—these endangered souls chose a safer path than their colleagues, who went on-the-record for The Crimson and will presumably be shot at sunrise...
...believe (and she still does not) that she was communicating any messages from Abdel Rahman to his supporters in Egypt. To Stewart, her actions were a method by which she could convey her client’s political views. This is, admittedly, a very thin and tenuous line that Stewart has tried to walk on; the government is right to prosecute her for her actions. But does she deserve to go to jail for 30 years? After all, no terrorism or violence came about because of the communication that Stewart had with the reporter. Stewart should have been tried...
...only in the rudiment of resident tutors, who of course are not professors but students themselves. The Senior Common Rooms, receptions to which professors affiliated with a House are invited, do remarkably little to stimulate student-faculty interaction, and the institutional relationship between faculty members and the Houses is tenuous: faculty members are not seen in the Houses...
Some fear that because Harvard does not require applicants to confirm their Native American heritages, students are exploiting tenuous connections in hopes of improving their admissions chances...
Perhaps more importantly, in the most recently released set of Pairwise Rankings, (a formula that imitates the method used by the NCAA Selection Committee in determining the bracket for the Frozen Eight,) Harvard jumped to No. 5 from the tenuous eighth position...