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...tenure statistics put a new spin on departmental politics. Junior Faculty members talk about the unlikelihood of receiving tenure "constantly," Margo I. Seltzer '83, associate professor of computer science, writes in an e-mail...
...report concluded that the relative unlikelihood of promotion to tenure at Harvard, as contrasted with 'tenure track' schools where promotion from within is common, is a serious obstacle to recruitment because the academic job market is so bad that new Faculty members fear they may not be able to find good positions when the time comes to leave Harvard," said Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch, who represented the Resources Committee at the council meeting...
...debate is all the more vexing because it involves trying to outguess Mother Nature -- a futile endeavor, as evidenced by the wild unlikelihood of devastating rain in July, which nonetheless happened. The consistent pattern of late 20th century flooding in the U.S. has been a decline in deaths proportionate to the area inundated, but a startling rise in property damage, due to increased building and farming on the floodplains and inflation in dollar values. Beyond that, all is as uncertain as the exact height of the flood crest and the precise time it will pass St. Louis. A 1955 book...
...different, utopian world, where race is recognized as a mythic construction and an obstruction to human relationship. The progression from reality to fantasy is both the strongest and weakest point of the play. That the play starts as realistic political narrative and ends up as utopian romance signals the unlikelihood of racism disappearing anytime soon and the necessity for optimism; it also allows for wonderful comic twists as the play ascends into farce in the second...
Despite the confidence she has in her platform, Meyer acknowledges the unlikelihood of a victory and admits that her chances of winning are next to none...