Word: understanding
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...expect a restructuring of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. However, last week’s announcement that the administration is offering early retirement packages to faculty in FAS and four of Harvard’s professional schools comes as a bit of a surprise. While we understand the necessity of the package and we appreciate that early retirement may be a tempting offer for faculty, we do have concerns about its implications for academics at Harvard...
...mine to go to Hollywood and be able to work—that’s a blessing, that’s a gift. The worst is [that] it’s such a pivotal period of transition for our industry because of new technology and trying to understand how we should monetize it and how to share the profits of that and see how we actors fit into that. It’s harder to make a mark in the industry today than it was 20 years...
...Criticism never really bothers me because if you do something against the grain you’re always going to have people who don’t understand it and be resistant to it. If you’re an artist, you either learn to deal with it and not let it sweep you away or not. You gotta be true...
...Experience is arbitrary," wrote Editor Adam Clark Estes. "But we will demand that you understand teh internet, possess a cutting sense of humor, and write with a proto-David Foster Wallace voice. Seriously, otherwise, just email us if you're up for cranking out content. IvyGate pays in beer and glory. And trust me, it flows freely...
...understand Barack Obama's Afghanistan decision, it's instructive to go back to one history-shifting sentence, uttered by his predecessor more than eight years ago. It was Sept. 20, 2001. The nation was in agony, and George W. Bush stood before a joint session of Congress, telling Americans where to direct their rage. "Americans are asking, 'Who attacked our country?'" Bush declared early in his remarks. "The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as al-Qaeda." (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...