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...would not replace retiring professors by default, but rather “take that as an opportunity” to rethink where else he might want to build faculty.English professor Louis Menand said that the administration may discuss the possibility of merging some humanities departments to be able to let go of professors more directly.“The only way you can fire people who are tenured is to close the department,” Menand said.In the meantime, Smith is soon set to appoint six working groups composed of administrators and undergraduates charged with reexamining finances within FAS.Although...
...through your head is, “I wish I had a book with me.”As a functional tool or toy, I don’t mind the Kindle, but we must never conflate it with the experience of real paper. I hope we refuse to let books become expensive antiques. I hope libraries are always sacred places of knowledge and learning, rather than massively inefficient time capsules. As a side note, if you’re looking to buy a Kindle as a gift, buy it now because it will definitely be sold out around Christmas...
Then the hospital had a request. "After she died," Jose Luis says, "they told me they needed some samples to be sent to Mexico because her disease had been so different, so I let them." The results of the biopsies of Adela's lungs and liver would help send Mexico and the world into a panic: she had the H1N1 swine flu virus and was the first known fatality. On the day she died, the state of Oaxaca notified the Ministry of Health that it had a case of atypical swine flu; and on Sunday, Health Minister Dr. Martin Vazquez...
...husband and daughters stayed as close as they could throughout the process. "I was happy," says Jose Luis, "that even though the hospital has a rule of not allowing minors in, they let my middle daughter see her and say goodbye." The 17-year-old says, "I was sad to see so many tubes, but the social worker was very nice to us and allowed me to kiss her and stay with...
...different from the usual that she had gone - but we really do not know." The physicians have also been monitoring the family's health. "We have not had any symptoms, thank God," Jose Luis says. "So we do not need to be tested. If we get sick, we will let them know, but now, there is no problem at all." Still, he says, "they keep on coming every...