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Resolving Scope
A front-page article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal goes into some detail about how Dell Computer's announcement earlier this year...
When You Make Your Toast Tonight
“When at a loss how to go on, cough,” says an ancient Greek proverb. Or so claims 10,000 Jokes, Toasts...
Caring for Children and Their Parents
The MLA convention in San Francisco this year is spread out over two hotels, one on either side of Market...
The Quest for Balance and Support
The panel titled "Negotiating Family and Graduate Studies", sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the...
MLA Realities -- Then and Now
My first San Francisco MLA, I didn't get any closer to the convention than the lobby of the Fairmont Hotel...
Going on a Diet
Among Richard Vedder's 10 ways the economic downturn might change campus behavior: bigger teaching loads, more unionization, a truce in the athletics arms race -- and a slowing in college presidents' pay?
The MLAs of Yesteryear
For those interviewing at MLA this year, here are links to a couple of dispatches I did for McSweeney's on...
The Committee Is Now in Session
Carolyn Foster Segal considers -- with some fear -- the number of meetings professors must attend.