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However, Bok appoints the deans and has a yea or nay on tenure decisions after the faculty has voted -- powers that provide him with some leverage. In fact, tenure is notoriously tough to win at Harvard, with the result that many promising untenured faculty members migrate out. Last year, for example, Bok vetoed tenure for Sociologist Paul Starr, whose 1982 book The Social Transformation of American Medicine had won a Pulitzer. The apparent reason: Starr was judged to be weak in the quantifiable data research deemed appropriate for a Harvard scholar. He is now tenured at Princeton's Institute...
...SOUND SARCASTIC, and that's because John put me on the defensive. The sincere consideration of my religious beliefs, yea or nay, is important to me. But this serious issue, which John had made his product, coupled with his sly presentation, nettled me, closed up my ears. His cordial hustle had been effective enough that I answered him straightforwardly--but negatively. Chris just rolled his eyes, and shook his head. And in less than half a minute, his unsuccessful spiel through, John was gone...
Even after 30 years in the advice business, Landers was surprised by the verdict: of the more than 90,000 women who answered, 64,000 cried yes; one reader marked her yes on a 6-ft.-wide poster. More surprising still, 40% of the yea-sayers were under 40. "I'd expect that some women 50 to 70 had had enough sex," Landers observed. "But in this so-called enlightened age, with liberated womanhood--that's pretty startling...
...Miss Ross has came and been honored. I fear that a pattern has been established. Instead of denouncing much a trend with hard words. I would like to suggest another way that the Foundation can bring a little Hollywood to Harvard. Why don't they invite Duffy Duck? Oh yea, that little varmint will pack'em in. In addition, he fits the Foundation's criteria for guests: he's black, a celebrity, and no matter what he says no one will be offended. Duffy is irresistible case and will not offer anything even remotely related to race relations. Who could...
...empty spaces in previous songs don't quite suffice in Nebraska. Springsteen addresses this familiar and reassuring theme in the album's final song, but the track, "Reason to Believe," is not so comfy. Here the narrator distances himself from his own chorus: "Struck me kinda funny, funny yea indeed, how at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe." On this album, Springsteen addresses more directly the hardships we either endure or ignore. The gloom afflicting Springsteen on this one song with a glimmer of hope shows there are no readily apparent solutions...