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Math Geek Mom: Assume A Happy New Year
Economists make many assumptions in our efforts to mathematically model the world. Some of these assumptions instantly make sense to...
The Story of a Year: Norman Maclean, Part 3
With the new year, we tell ourselves the story of a year. The story of last year. The story of...
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?