Word: wishing
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...earth guy who always puts the IOP's dinner guests at ease. Sharp, a Democrat who has served in the House of Representatives, will continue to teach at the Kennedy School in addition to assuming increased duties at an environmental agency. We thank him for his service and wish him well...
...first point is that Harvard is not a "tenure-track" institution as many universities are, and has never considered it normal, or even likely, that a newly hired assistant professor would be promoted to tenure in due course. It does sometimes happen here, and I wish it could have happened for Masten, but as I observed to your reporter it is seldom easy to make an irrefutable case for promoting a young scholar at the outset of his or her career when it might have been possible to choose instead an older scholar of the highest distinction and bring that...
Much though I wish Jeffrey Masten had received tenure at Harvard, I am well aware that the stakes are high and that the President faces an exceptionally difficult decision when he makes an appointment that will stand for the next fourty years. --Leo Damrosch, chair of Department of English and American Literature and Language
...wish to respond to your Dec. 9, 1997, "Cops in Shops" editorial...
...read with interest about the Henry R. Luce postage stamp, scheduled to be issued in the spring [TO OUR READERS, Dec. 8]. I wish that when I bought stamps, I could get those with images of Luce and other great Americans on them. But all I seem to be able to find are stamps with pictures of flowers or "love swans." I suspect that someone in the post office has put his grandmother in charge of the distribution department. STEVE BEUTELSPACHER Baltimore...