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Scathing Online Schoolmarm
Norman Mailer has won England's annual Bad Sex Award, posthumously, for a passage in one of his last novels. Here's...
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Plate of Shrimp
"It's like when someone says plate. And then someone says shrimp. And then someone says plate of shrimp .... It's...
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Time's Up -- Or Else!
Three things caught my eye this morning, each conveying a “time’s up!” warning. First, while savoring my first cup of...
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What John Warner Knows
My guest today is John Warner, editor of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, a man who once took a chance on a...
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Beyond Islamophobofascism
Al Qaeda's strategists have a battle plan. Scott McLemee wants to duck and cover....
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Recruiting Without Paying
A returning correspondent writes: I'm just starting to think of the hiring season and, while I'm at a urban high...
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Deconstructing Faculty Work
Over the past decade much discussion has focused on the growing percentage of college teaching done by contingent faculty. Variously...
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Can Higher Education Manage Talent?
Colleges are better at helping other organizations' employees develop than at helping their own, writes Doug Lynch.