Word: walt
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...consumers to opt in, say, by sending a text message. For example, Nationwide, the insurance and financial-services company, encourages visitors on Times Square's Reuters billboard to send in snapshots via a company website. Each afternoon it posts selected photos on the 23-story sign. Up the street, Walt Disney World advertises a new theme-park attraction. Send a text message to the number posted, and seconds later your phone buzzes with an SMS from Disney asking whether you want further promotions. For now, the advertiser knows only your number. Before too long, though, it could know your name...
...Walt will remain a tenured professor at the school, but the announcement that he will leave the position of academic dean means that Walt will no longer be in charge of the KSG’s teaching and research at a time when his own scholarship is under attack...
...Dean David T. Ellwood ’75 said in a statement that Walt "had been due to depart last June after the normal three-year cycle, but had agreed, at my request, to stay on for one more year...
Ellwood said that he sent an e-mail to KSG faculty members on Feb. 21—before the uproar over the article—informing them that Walt would end his term as academic dean in June. Ellwood said he also asked professors for recommendations regarding the search for the next academic dean...
...Walt and Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, argue in their paper that "unquestioned support" for Israel does not serve U.S. strategic objectives and fosters anti-American sentiment in the Arab world and beyond. The paper was posted on the KSG’s website last month, and an abridged version of it was published in the London Review of Books...