Word: thinning
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...thought getting into Harvard College was tough, you haven’t tried to slip a manuscript under the thin-rimmed glasses of Bill Sisler. While Byerly Hall is stingy enough with a 10.9 percent acceptance rate, it’s outclassed by the enigmatic Kittridge Hall just past the Quad, home to Harvard University Press (HUP) and Sisler, its director. Just 140 new books a year make it past the four layers of internal editing, outside reviews and faculty consideration to see the light of print, while at least 10 times that number find their way to the circular...
...granted entrance to Sisler’s expansive corner office overlooking a quiet, pretty Cambridge neighborhood might be disarmed by his easygoing style. It’s hard to be intimidated by this friendly, unimposing man, about six feet tall and slightly balding, with soft eyes behind round thin-rimmed glasses—until you remember that one word from him can land you a coveted job at a premier university. The walls are lined with the oeuvre of those who have won his favor—one is covered by a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf. It?...
...course, it would be stretching the situation somewhat thin to call Monnin’s alleged gesture heroic, or even particularly meaningful. A juvenile pantomime is not the most admirable blow for the forces of democracy, and those who call the incident valuable “dissent” overstate their case. But barnyard gesticulations—especially those denied by the party accused of making them—are no grounds for the rescinding of a leadership award. Etiquette is not leadership, and the Alumni Association would do well to consider whether it wishes to recognize those adult skills...
...postwar occupation of Iraq would be devastating to the U.S. economy and to our armed forces as they tried to control a "liberated" Iraq. Not only would an occupation require large amounts of money, but it would also thin out American armed forces, taking them away from fronts that seem to be developing constantly. Amid rising tensions with North Korea and the constant threat of terrorist attacks, how would the military be able to operate the way it must if thousands of troops were in Iraq? DAN ROSEN Owings Mills...
...feigned indifference, and reassured the nation about American scientific prowess. Some of the U.S.'s top scientists, like M.I.T.'s Vannevar Bush, took refuge behind closed doors until they could figure out what to say. Worry seeped through the nation, always uncomfortable with second place. The U.S. hurried its thin, finely engineered rocket, with a satellite, to the launching pad two months later. But Vanguard lurched, buckled and blew up on the ground. The gentle astronomer John Hagen, who headed Project Vanguard, sucked on his ever present pipe and rightly pointed out that U.S. space science was more sophisticated than...