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...Mukhopadhay: Everyone knows that TFs are more likely to hook up with you than actual professors. Sujoy Mukhopadhay, a bold and determined educator, shatters that stereotype. I mean, SHATTERS. Just make sure that the correct pronunciation of his last name isn’t your “safe word.”Tobbias Ritter: His boyish good looks and affinity for pranks (who switched sodium hydrocloride with sodium hydroclorate?!!?) have earned him the title, “Ashton Kutcher of the Chemistry Department.” He still needs some work on his signature catchphrase...
...Harvard still purport to teach the liberal arts, those studies worthy of a free man. Such a curriculum once itself implied an ideal, an end. The liberal arts, indeed, have had as their object to cultivate the “gentleman,” in the sense that the word implies a distinction, a high standard that presumably all, and probably most, can never attain—and not as we often use the term today, to welcome every male individual who passes through the door of a public restroom. A liberal education aspires to make men?...
...also given sufficient moola to hire top-tier talent, who were put on handsome retainers. Tom Wolfe was rumored to be paid $12 a word; Michael Lewis $50K an article. David Margolick was poached from Vanity Fair, where the contributing editor's retainer was well into six figures. Less renowned staff writers were said to make over $150,000 a year. Deputy editor Amy Stevens was making north of $400,000, several colleagues said. Even some of the bloggers were hitting the $120,000 mark...
...referencing "May 29th" (a whole week after finals are over! First agenda for the summer, eh?), and saying "I encourage you to complete all of your evaluations this term" instead of "I encourage you to complete evaluations for all of your courses this term"--saving you one word of reading...
Tatar’s research led her to observe children’s reading habits and conduct interviews to try to better understand the impact of the written word...