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Harvard's 222 junior faculty members are caught in a revolving door. As they spin through their research and teaching duties, they catch brief glimpses of the tight academic job market outside and of the plush life inside the University's tenured faculty. Eventually, a few will come in, but most must get out--quietly or angrily, by choice or by force. Sometimes a tenured faculty members leaves as well. Following are reports about several former junior and senior faculty members who have moved on, including three who were denied promotion or tenure last year...
...audience directly, sometimes like a ringmaster, sometimes like a stand-up comic and sometimes, too, like a penitent. "It's not enough just to say I'm this character," McKellen insists. "The reality approach limits you." When an actor like Ian McKellen brings it back from a spin around the block, reality stands revealed for what it should be, a humble beginning...
...trained White House staff that goes from Administration to Administration will have his office decorated, fresh flowers in place, his schedule typed out, phone hooked up, Air Force One ready to fly, the hot line at hand, the Marine band on alert, and the pastry chef set to spin his sugar magic...
...simple fidelity to detail that has made L'Amour's novels excep tional bestsellers. His popularity keeps growing because, in an epoch of prose experiments and self-conscious narrative, he has never forgotten to spin his yarn. "My books are meant to be read aloud," he says. "I'm a troubadour, a village taleteller. I'm the guy at the end of the bar or in the shadows of the campfire." In the past decade, he has become a kind of Woody Guthrie of fiction, a conservative populist who believes the myths he creates...
...white-knuckle express. Scott does straightaways at 110 m.p.h. and rarely corners at less than 65 m.p.h. The car seems to be flying out of control. Passengers are jerked around hard as Scott throws the Chevy into bootleg and J turns. Tires scream. Heads (and stomachs) spin. Everyone is scared witless. "This is hardball out here," shouts Scott in the understatement of the week, "but you'll be doing it in a few days." No way, each student groans to himself. But only 10% fail the course...