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...Romer and her husband David, for example, have made a conscious decision to travel as a team...
That's not the case at all universities. At the University of California at Berkeley, for example, "when we try to hire people it's not just who we want but can we get them," says Christina D. Romer, a professor at the school who is involved in recruiting there...
...their spouse] has an established medical practice we might make a formal phone call, but it's not worth the long hiring process because there's a very small chance," says Romer, who will be a professor at the Kennedy School along with her husband next year...
...hasn't worked out that way. When fellow Reagan appointee Anthony Kennedy wrote, for the 6-to-3 majority in Romer v. Evans in May, that a state constitutional amendment denying legal redress for discrimination based on homosexuality violated the equal-protection clause, Scalia wrote a withering dissent. He scoffed at the majority opinion's "grim, disapproving hints that Coloradans have been guilty of animus or animosity toward homosexuality, as though that has been established as un-American" and derided Kennedy's reasoning as "preposterous" and "comical," then dismissed the holding as "terminal silliness...
Christina Romer said she has seen a big change in economic scholarship at the Kennedy School, particularly that a great many younger economists have been joining the faculty...