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...having a bit of a breather this year so the development office can catch up with us,” Hoxby said.But professors who rose to speak after hearing the committee’s report were markedly skeptical of the Faculty’s financial direction.Anthropology Department Chair Arthur Kleinman called for closer cooperation between the separate administrations of FAS and the University.“There is a sense within the Faculty that the relationship between the center and the deanery is not as robustly effective as it should be,” he said.Kirby, also an East Asian...
...starting to suspect there may be more to it. In laboratory animals, at least, exercise also seems to stimulate the body's production of certain molecules called growth factors, which help nerves stay healthy and keep functioning. "We don't understand a lot about why this happens," says Arthur Kramer, a researcher at the University of Illinois who uses brain scans to study the effects of exercise. "But we're learning more about that...
...Marco gives us a really bad premise, such as an episode in which the mother-in-law comes. We all pretend it's a good idea and spend most of the day figuring out funny stuff that our characters would do with a mother-in-law and whether Bea Arthur or Cloris Leachman would be funnier playing her. Our concepts are so bad that Marco eventually realizes what a horrible idea a mother-in-law episode would be. Then he yells, "Come on, guys, we have to get this! Focus...
...ARTHUR & GEORGE JULIAN BARNES...
...know Arthur Conan Doyle: pillar of society, cricket jock and wildly successful author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, whose life of late-Victorian virtue goes all squiffy when he accidentally acquires a passion for a woman not his wife. Doyle also acquires a late-life project in the form of George Edalji, a half-Indian lawyer who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned. Barnes, a top-shelf British novelist whose work doesn't always cross the Atlantic well, has created a slow-burning, enlargingly human tale of reasonable men whose expectations about the world are first deeply disappointed and then strangely...