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The Playboy Philosopher

Bernard-Henri Lévy has become an American media superstar. Scott McLemee thinks his fifteen minutes are about up.
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Merit, Mortgages, and Meltdowns

This is old news nationally, but I can confirm that locally, we're seeing a definite impact of the mortgage meltdown...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Discipline and Praise

Back in the days when my peers and I were having our children, I remember hearing that one friend didn’t...
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I Hate Bucky Dent

Todd Diacon wonders what today's students -- behind their closed doors -- don't know about their dormmates and how that lack of interaction is changing the nature of the college experience.
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Ask the Administrator: Breaking Into Bio

A new correspondent writes: I just graduated with my masters in Biology and started to look at jobs in the...
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Planning for Contraction

Timothy Burke looks at the changing economic landscape for higher education -- and sees a coming period of relative austerity.
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In Which I Admit to Being Really Confused

Okay, so we're running a huge national debt, financed largely by borrowing from other countries. As I understand it, the...
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You, the jury

It you live in the USA or Canada, there's an election going on in your life. I'm not going to...