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Some of the teachers who stay become increasingly resentful at having to leave. If Harvard were a totem pole, Expos faculty would be on the part that is under the ground, but it is still the Harvard totem pole. It's all downhill from here. The thought of having to teach more students for less money at a place like (God forbid!) Boston College causes the bile to rise. And guess who becomes the chief focus of all that anger...
Here, perhaps, is where the reality of educational policy at Harvard seems to mirror the Expos program's symbolic place at the bottom of the Faculty totem pole...
Washington -- FBI agents are almost giddy over the appointment of their new director, Louis Freeh, the former agent who will fill the tiny shoes of William Sessions, the fbi chief who was recently sacked. Some agents posted at headquarters -- considered a bottom-of-the-totem-pole assignment -- are actually seeking delays in their promotions so they can watch Freeh in action. Other agents who were scheduled to retire have decided to stick around awhile, even though such a decision means missing out on a one-time-only $25,000 buyout plan being offered this year...
...have Actisite and other new treatments not been approved for general use in the U.S.? "The FDA is burdened with life-or-death priorities like AIDS and cancer," says Michael Newman, a professor of periodontics at the UCLA School of Dentistry. "Dental products are low on the totem pole." Other dental researchers wonder whether acceptance of the therapies is being delayed by periodontists who don't want to lose part of their lucrative oral-surgery practice. "European countries are definitely more receptive," Loesche says. "Part of it is that they don't have a strong periodontal establishment...
...Judiciary Committee. He was a rapid proponent of segregation in 1948 but has since become a repentant integrator. Originally a Democrat, he has become the definition of an archconservative Republican. Even with his experience, Thurmond must rest a few notches below Metzenbaum on the whom-do-you-trust totem pole...