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...several measures to respond to the worries of tenure-track faculty. Martin notes that they’ve instituted mentorship programs between senior and junior faculty members to give them an edge in the process. “We’re really pushing to make sure that departments understand that they’re responsible for the career development of their faculty,” she says, “so that [junior professors] can be realistically considered for tenure. We’re also making sure that in junior level searches they’re hiring people...
...life in South America, and had become a nationalized citizen of Korea. He spoke like a rabbi, answering my questions about his life story with more questions (“How does anyone end up anywhere?”). He wore his yarmulke proudly amongst people who did not understand it. And to me, he was like some strange hallucination...
...that bullshit,” he said in his unplaceable accent. “You want to know what Israel is, to me? It’s not a country, it’s not a place. It’s my wife. My wife is Israel. Do you understand...
...argue that they weren't really voting for war, they were voting for inspectors, or for diplomacy," he means Clinton. Obama continued the offensive by framing the entire race for the Democratic nomination as a "choice that has emerged in this campaign, one that the American people need to understand. They should ask themselves: who got the single most important foreign policy decision since the end of the Cold War right, and who got it wrong?" The entire speech continued in this way. It never mentioned the front-runner by name, but everyone knew whom he was talking about...
...whisk him away (Cabinet appointments were being made that week and there were key departments yet to fill). Yet he lingered and continued to ask questions. At one point, he turned to me and said, with what I could only read as complete sincerity, "Jim, I don't understand poor people. I've never lived with poor people or been around poor people much. I don't understand what they think and feel about a lot of things. I'm just a white Republican guy who doesn...