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Indeed, in his Jan. 12 statement to The Crimson, Professor Thompson himself indicates that after playing is "usual role" in departmental deliberations he wrote his "customary letter" to Dean Knowles. But the very purpose of this "customary letter"-a confidential letter that is in fact a formal feature of tenure review in the FAS-is to enable all tenured faculty members to play a role in tenure review beyond departmental deliberations and have their candid opinions, unconstrained by pressures from colleagues, heard by the deans, the ad hoc committee, and the president...
...especially giddy right before winter break this year. Tired and just recovering from a surprise attack of the flu, I had been looking forward to my two weeks of food, fun and relaxaton with more relish than usual. In this pre-break state of mind, our system of having finals (and final papers) take place in January always seemed like a good idea to me: I'd take some time off, sleep late, forget about deadlines and return to Cambridge refreshed, invigorated and ready to work...
...vacation excitement was squashed even before I even got home. I snuck away within minutes of my last section, speeding off to the Delta Shuttle at Logan. A friendly businessman seated next to me struck up a conversation. Correctly identifying me as a college student, he asked the usual questions, including whether I was happy to be done with my exams. He blanched when I told him about our raw deal. Was I going to study at home, during the holidays? Unlikely, I answered. Yet inevitably on the way home from the airport I was thinking about the Warren Court...
With prestige and grants on the line, government and academic scientists regrouped and counterattacked. The most important naysayer, as usual, was Watson, but others quickly lined up behind him. Venter's "book of life," said one of the leaders of the federal genome program, would be a Mad magazine...
...produce some impressive visuals: Data walks around as a head without a body after removing part of his invisibility suit; Worf clubs an attacking drone ship out of the sky; truly evil-looking Son'a spaceships surround the Enterprise with the colorful backdrop of a nebula; and, as usual, the make-up artists have created a variety of strange-looking aliens...