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Notes from the First Week Back
The Wife's birthday was this past weekend. She continues to look dramatically younger than her age, which I'll admit taking...
Fees
The New York Times ran a front-page article yesterday with the shocking – shocking, I say – news that colleges...
Background on the New Academy, and Questions for Bill Galston
The proposed Public Service Academy would be America's "first national civilian university" dedicated to producing "leaders of character" who would...
John Emerson Churm, 1918-2007
My father holding me, Saigon, 1963.
Ask My Readers: One-Year Gigs and Undergraduate Research
A returning correspondent writes: I have been skimming the latest crop of advertisements for physicsfaculty, and every so often I...
Help Harvard Spend Its Endowment: Part Two
UD has already proposed that Harvard relieve itself of the guilty burden of a forty billion dollar endowment by giving...
The Art of Breaking
Crazy Larry is in his first Equity play, and we were talking about the similarities between acting and teaching. I...
Slack or Squeeze?
As those last few students trickle in to last-minute registration, those of us who throw ourselves into the scrum at...