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... a giant leap for America.
Yesterday, the N.Y. Mercantile started auctioning mandatory carbon allowances under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. They're mandatory, that is, if...
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Drama Mama: 3 Things for My Best Friend
I have a friend in my discipline whose mother recently became ill. It is a relapse of cancer that she...
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Raising Future Writers
I think the kids picked up the 'obsessed with language' gene. Two vignettes from last night's dinner: The Wife: TG...
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I'm Going on Sabbatical
An adjunct's sabbatical, that is, which means I'll be staying in the teaching harness until I drop but taking a...
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... be very afraid!
Like everybody else, I'm following what's happening in Washington with regard to the possible bailout of financial markets. What strikes...
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WHO KILLED DAVID FOSTER WALLACE?
Suicides, especially the suicides of sensitive writers we love (Virginia Woolf, Randall Jarrell, Sylvia Plath, David Foster Wallace), are a...
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Bumper Stickers? Really?
Some issues are difficult. They feature the conflict of valid goods, a shortage of critical resources, or clashes of identity...
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Well, Duh...
A new report from the American Council on Education (see it here) entitled "Too Many Rungs on the Ladder? Faculty...