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...yesterday afternoon, top FAS officials announced several cost-cutting measures that included a hold on searches for tenure-track faculty and a stay on any salary raises for faculty and non-union staff. The letter urged department leaders to keep news of the cuts quiet until their announcement at today??s meeting...
...decided to include a deleted song, “Fold Your Flapping Wings.” Infrequently performed, the song was cut early in the show’s initial run because reviewers found it too bleak for a light comic operetta. “In today??s cultural climate, a song being too dark is not a good reason to not do it,” Morris says. “The song emphasizes the more serious side and the social commentary of the show.” Morris and Miller are also hoping to bring back...
...Marjorie Garber, a 392-year-old English playwright is of real importance to today??s world. Indeed, even after having written five books on William Shakespeare—most notably one that extensively chronicled all 38 of his plays—Garber, who is a professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, has yet to exhaust the continuing relevance of Shakespeare’s works in contemporary society. Garber’s scholarly project is to emphasize that literature is not a static entity, but rather a dynamic force that can effect change. For instance...
...Harvard College—96 members of the United States House of Representatives ratified the Southern Manifesto, a document drafted by the late Senator Strom Thurmond that labeled the racial integration of Southern schools a “clear abuse of judicial power.” A glimpse at today??s newspapers, plastered as many of them are with pictures and coverage of America’s first black President-elect, reveals exactly how much has changed in the 52 intervening years. Much of that transformation can be envisioned in, and in some cases attributed to, the lengthy...
...There is one primary difference between the current crop of crooked executives and those of Kozlowski’s “generation.” The earlier set, today imprisoned, stole money out of largely stable companies for their own personal use. Today??s top guns learned from their example, and siphoned their massive cuts, through bonuses and other forms of compensation, out of firms that turned out to be poorly-managed, colossal houses of cards, ready to collapse at any moment. Doesn’t the latter class of actions beg for convictions and new sentences...