The budget crisis “is not something you want to have on the first day on the job,” Douglas Baird, a University of Chicago law professor who, as dean there, hired Obama as an instructor, said in a telephone interview. “She'll have to go through lots and ...
Universities, with their verdant quads and hallowed halls of learning, are celebrated as bastions of ideas and academic freedoms. But more and more often, universities are being operated not as secular temples of education but as corporate business. Gaye Tuchman's exposé of the modern...
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