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...with tenure would have free license to effectively switch careers and produce things other than scholarship, be they music, drawings or lawn-chairs. West’s job—the one that Harvard hired him for and pays him a large salary to perform—is to write scholarly books and articles, not to make music. Further, as one of only 13 people here with the title of University Professor, West is an example not only to the rest of the Faculty, but to scholars all over the world...
...fear of losing her job, Hilder says. "She thought it would be fruitless while he was there." When Skilling suddenly quit on Aug. 14, Lay called an all-employees meeting two days later and asked for comments from workers beforehand. That's when Watkins finally sat down to write a one-page anonymous letter on her computer at work. She dropped it in the box at headquarters the next...
...stems from physical abuse he suffered as a child, though not at the hands of his parents. "Don says he wants to listen to music to be entertained. That's not where we're coming from. We like to talk about things that we can relate to. When we write music, there has to be honesty in it. We're not trying to say, 'I've gone through this, you have to feel sorry for me.' We're saying, 'I've gone through this, and we know other people are too.' There's nothing wrong with looking in the mirror...
...modernize, the Bank of China, second largest of the state-owned banks, has contracted with Citibank in China to study its technological infrastructure. "They're so cognizant of the importance of technology," says Daniel Rosen, a former White House adviser, "that they're letting a major foreign potential competitor write the book for them on what they need to do differently...
...detainee who had just finished washing his face wrapped his towel over his hair in the manner of Arab headwear. A U.S. military police guard told him to take it off, worried that weapons - like the rocks Guantanamo brass suspect the detainees may be using to write covert notes of revolt to one another - could be hidden inside the towel. But Rumsfeld, who arrived in the same white military bus that brought the prisoners to their cells from the battlefields of Afghanistan, made a point of not talking to the captives. And the silence was meant to help drive home...