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...member entering the tenure review process in the penultimate year of his appointment must condense the record of his achievements in scholarship, teaching, and citizenship for a dossier.Unlike a college application, though, the manila folder containing a tenure candidate’s dossier may be up to 10 inches thick. According to the Appointment Handbook for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it may enclose such documents as the department chair’s case statement, the candidate’s curriculum vitae and research statement, teaching evaluations, and over a dozen three-to-four page letters. Every senior faculty...
...year-old Cuomo, with his thick-rimmed glasses and quiet voice, has become the archetype—whether he likes it or not—of “geek rock.” Some have called him the godfather of the “Emo” revolution...
This led, predictably, to a kind of spiritual emptiness: restless, confused beings who sought crude material fulfillment. For Fitzgerald, the nouveau riche were vulgar and ostentatious, and the old aristocracy not much better. Though graceful, he found the latter bored (Jordan), shallow (Jordan, Daisy), or thick (Tom). All were confused; all were unhappy. The title then, is ironic, and the “great” refers less to reality than to Gatsby’s misguided ambitions, most of them unfulfilled...
...University of Nanterre, outside Paris, has been spending every day of her spring break in the library. After four weeks of demonstrations during which her university was blocked and idle, she and her co-students have a lot of catching up to do before exams. Fathi was in the thick of the protests. "We always knew we would win," she says. "Of course the government had to back away from their law after such a show of force, but who would have thought it would take four weeks of protests to bring them to their senses? So it wasn...
...quartz knives and pounding stones. These days Keely Naden visits the same spot her ancestors knew so well, but now she takes lodge guests with her, and her daily walk is a highlight of a stay here. The bush amble includes spotting Boyd's forest dragon lizards amid the thick foliage, pointing out the native hibiscus whose blooms signal when the eggs of the brush turkey are ready to eat and stopping at the waterfall, where Naden thanks the resident spirits for letting her visit...