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The Other National Championship
While college football fans watched bowl games last week, chess fans were monitoring the Pan American Intercollegiate Chess Championship, generally...
Words to Banish ... and Words to Use
Lake Superior State University on Thursday issued its annual "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use...
Bleak News on the Front Lines
PHILADELPHIA -- Already down hundreds of job openings, the Modern Language Association discovered, at its annual meeting here, that it...
Are American Students Lazy?
Adjunct's column, comparing them unfavorably to her foreign students, sets off debate over work ethic.
Hopkins Shares Too Much Information in Faculty Search
The history department at Johns Hopkins University angered many of those applying for a faculty job in early modern European...
Tweetup at the MLA
PHILADELPHIA -- A tweetup -- that is, a gathering of Twitter users -- tends to be a casual affair, more...
Obama Issues Declassification Order
President Obama last week issued an executive order that would speed up the release of classified material to the public...
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Job crisis broadens. After MLA reports collapsing market for language professors, history and economics groups reveal huge drops in faculty positions.