Word: tokenisms
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...Faculty.Summers deserves the benefit of the doubt in the Kirby split, particularly given today’s announcement that Summers had agreed to a uniquely faculty-friendly search process for finding a new dean of the Faculty. The search which landed Kirby the position only gave the Faculty a token advising role in his selection. By contrast, in the search for the next dean, seven professors appointed by the Faculty Council will choose the pool from which Summers will create a search committee. In turn, this search committee, shaped largely by Faculty input, will play a large role in vetting...
...Ivory Coast Club Med resort and, in the second film, on the ski slopes, the new movie finds our antiheroes visiting Sardinia in overripe middle age. Experience has taught them little more than how to hone their barbs. Their fashion choices are worse than ever, and the embonpoint of token bimbo Gigi (Marie-Anne Chazel) has been enlarged to gargantuan proportions. Past entanglements collide with new realities to create fresh comic crises within the group. "They're really trashy and amazingly repulsive, yet they accept it in one another as the price to pay to remain friends," explains Patrice Leconte...
...same token, several studies have suggested that older folks who are socially active?who, for example, do volunteer work or attend religious services?have a reduced risk of dementia. There are, of course, plenty of caveats that go along with those observations, including the same old chicken-or-egg problem that haunts all observational studies: In this case, is withdrawal from society a cause or result of Alzheimer's disease...
...Bandages” by Hot Hot Heat. Interviewed the band, saw them live on The Crimson’s token. Bonus points for “Brazil”-referencing video. Minus points for immediately becoming irrelevant two years later...
...encourage him to apply, whereas all the other colleges waited until he had sent in an application. She emphasized the strength of the black community at Harvard and assured him that it was different from his private high school, where he was, in his words, the “token black kid.”“Talking to Tanya allowed me to see it was even possible for me to get into an Ivy League. Before, I wasn’t even considering it,” said Gorrick. “After talking...