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Klein did not grow up wealthy--after financial aid, she paid $58 a year tuition at CCNY. "When I decided to go into academia, I was 21 years old. I did not want to be poor. I had to find what I could do that would make a decent salary and also would be non-exploitative, that would also maybe allow me time to do community work...
Klein won't positively commit more than the "first part" of her life to academia. Should she quit,"I've had people say to me that they think I should run for public office. I don't think I could ever do that--it's unclear to me whether individuals in public positions really can do anything," she says...
...centers of power vying for intellectual hegemony--call them Harvard and Yale. Harvard, long dominant in struggles for primacy, has grown complacent. Yale, meanwhile, has devised a cunning plot designed to wreak havoc at Harvard and pave the way for its own ultimate victory in the cold war of academia...
...institute helps scholars survive outside academia...
...avarice," he announced, "is my ruling passion." When Bertrand Russell lobbied for draft resistance in World War I, Housman refused to protest Russell's removal from his lectureship at Cambridge. He contributed a substantial sum to the war effort, thereby wiping out most of his savings. In academia, Housman was feared by colleagues for ruining the reputations of classicists with his vitriolic criticism...