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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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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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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...
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Ask My Readers: Students Who Outplace
When they apply for admission at my cc, prospective students who haven't placed out already with SAT/ACT scores or AP...
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Syncopation
During the academic year, there's a pretty good degree of synchronization on campus. Most people are around frequently enough that...