Word: fielding
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...hierarchy consists of managing editors, book editors, assistant editors and, at the bottom, researcher writers. Researcher writers--RWs, or (better still) "r-dubs"--are the lucky ducks who go out into the field with a little Let's Go change in their pockets to document the Chilean nightlife. The editors make more money--$7,000--but have to stay behind in the Cambridge home office...
Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies Lawrence Lessig, an expert in the field of cyber-law at Harvard Law School (HLS) and a fellow of HLS's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, offered his friend-of-the-court brief at the request of U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson...
...concentrator. You may drop your jaw in shock because you never thought a Folk and Myth student actually existed, but it's all right--I'm used to such a traumatic reaction. I've used the same spiel for years: "Yes, I concentrate in the overlooked and under-appreciated field of Folklore and Mythology. Yes, it is interesting. No, I do not know what I'm going to do with a degree in Folklore and Mythology...
...quite the same way, at least not within my earshot. But they were under the impression, perhaps, that this was all "just a phase," and in due time I would change to a more honorable concentration like social studies or biochemistry. "At least try to have your special field in psychology, or something more applicable," my mom tried to reason with me. My father was less diplomatic: "But you are on the pre-med track, of course...
None of these outbursts, however, seemed to have an effect on me. If anything, my interests became more and more esoteric as I progressed. For example, what was once a Social Anthropology special field became Celtic Languages and Literatures instead. I find myself crawling around the subterranean levels of Widener digging up Gaelic texts about to crumble to dust...