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What a Special Operations Chaplain Knows

He was the best of us, as they say, but that’s not claiming much moral high ground. Back in what’s...
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What Ngo Trung Viet Knows

My preceding post was about a collection of poems by an 18th-century Vietnamese concubine, Ho Xuan Huong, who wrote in...
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Ask the Administrator: How to Break In

An adjunct, and returning correspondent, writes: If I was an English adjunct at your CC, where would you advise me...
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The Wrong Type of Auction

If Congress wants to bring market forces to federal student loans, it should auction existing loans to determine their value, not the right to make loans, Arthur Hauptman writes.
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Ask the Administrator: The Best?

A new correspondent writes: Are community colleges required, either by policy or law, to always hire the job candidate who...
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Counting Ponytails

We need progress toward gender equity in athletics, but the current debate isn't helping, writes Welch Suggs.
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Vietnam, Penultimate

Back at the end of February I set out to blog about Spring Essence, a collection of poems by an...
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Help Harvard Spend Its Endowment

Where Most Needed is a blog that follows what it calls "the charity industry." Its author, in a recent post...