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...movement is driven less by ideology than by economics. Part of graduate school's allure has always been the promise of a cushy professorial job and the likelihood of tenure within a few years. But today that career path looks grim. Of the 8,000 students receiving Ph.D.s in the humanities between 1996 and 2000, less than half will land full-time "tenure track" jobs. Increasingly, colleges farm out teaching to part-time instructors, who earn skimpy salaries and rarely get benefits. So, many graduate students figure, they need to haggle for all they can get now--and they think...
...order to avoid a similar sweep by Harvard, Cornell's slim chances for victory lie in the hands of Stahl and Travis Burns. In all likelihood, the Big Red will be Harvard's first Ivy League victory en route to a back-to-back conference title...
Marusic told The Crimson two weeks ago that while the bombings might not stop the genocide, "the likelihood they will stop is greater." Now he calls his former comments "kind of hesitant." The Serbs are "aggressors," he said, adding that the latest news coming from Kosovo is proof of the necessity of the bombings...
PFORZHEIMER. Pforzheimer House offers a bit more variety than Currier and accommodates sophomores in groups of two, three and four. Although the likelihood of a sophomore single "varies greatly" according to the Assistant to the Masters Sharon Holt, many of the suites are designed to accommodate an (n+1) number of students. "Because we have so many good rooms," boasts Holt, "students typically know which rooms they'll choose before the lottery." The abundance of desirable housing cuts down on scheming and room jockeying ploys during the upperclass rooming lottery, according to Holt...
...honest, I didn't believe they would do it," Marusic said. "Let's look at the effect there would be if there were no strikes. The genocide would have continued. It doesn't mean they will stop, but the likelihood they will stop is greater...