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• matrimonial bliss, amongst the ruins

  
  ads without products — Authority: 121
  Special shoutout to Mrs Ads, who has been providing me with every comfort, material and immaterial, during the Crisis. We have gotten through tough times together, right from the start, but this is perhaps the toughest. And she’s there. The point is not lost on Mr. Ads.
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• Where are the women? Not organizing or participating in very many colloquia at NYU Law, apparently.

  
  Feminist Law Professors — Authority: 135
  From this site : Fall 2009 Colloquia Constitutional Theory Colloquium Professors David Golove and Richard Pildes Hauser Colloquium:  Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Law Professor Ryan Goodman Colloquium in Legal, Political and Social Philosophy Professors Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel ...
  10 hours ago

• Event photo: Geoffrey Taylor gets schooled

  
  Quill & Quire — Authority: 519
  As reported earlier on Quillblog , IFOA head Geoffrey Taylor has been awarded an honorary degree from the School of Creative & Performing Arts at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. The ceremony took place on Saturday, Nov. 7. Taylor, left, receives his degree from John Davies, the ...
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• Misc.

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 440
  Misc. * Ezra Klein argues Nancy Pelosi is playing three-dimensional chess . * "Tea Party" is now a registered party in Florida. Excelsior! The skys the limit. * John Hodgman now has a daily podcast . * 40 House Democrats are now threatening to vote no on the health care conference bill unless Stupak is ...
  11 hours ago

• Qualitative Research Links and References

  
  Silence and Voice — Authority: 121
  I recently stumbled across Ron Chenail’s The Qualitative Report website at Nova Southeastern University while I was doing some research for a proposal I am working on for the 6th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2010) . Ron has a wonderful weekly newsletter, as well as one of the more current ...
  16 hours ago

• Anniversary Comparison

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 645
  Amazon search on “ revolution 1848 “: 17,292 results Amazon search on “ revolution 1989 “: 7,972 results
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• Protecting the Pitbulls

  
  11D — Authority: 132
  Malcolm Gladwell wrote one of the best essays of the year in the New Yorker a couple of weeks ago. In Offensive Play , Gladwell begins by describing the terrible brain injuries that linebackers get from repeatedly hitting each other. Their job is to use their heads as battering rams, and the repeated bangs in the ...
  17 hours ago

• More evidence that Duke is full of wankers

  
  Debris — Authority: 118
  Meanwhile, at the Northwestern of the Southeast, the controversy du jour concerns a study of sex toys . As part of the study, female students are invited to attend a “one-hour party” at which they will “view sex toys and engage in sexually explicit conversation with other female Duke students.” The director ...
  19 hours ago

• Scenes from the Post-Racial Society in Evanston

  
  Debris — Authority: 118
  Two Northwestern University thought it would be a real hoot to don blackface for Halloween . Reaction on the campus and beyond ranged from justified indignation and shock at such a crass display of racist imagery, to predictable whining about “political correctness”. Personally, I find the most outrageous tidbit ...
  19 hours ago

• Dumber Together? Brainstroming in a Professional Learning Community

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 121
  You have seen it before. The PLC agenda says, “Brainstorm ideas for…” You look around and see the chartpaper, pens, and Post-It notes lying on the table, and you think toyourself, “Why do we waste the time.” You know the rules of brainstorming in PLCs … 1. No criticism 2. Wild ideas are ...
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• Private Equity Law Textbook? Desperately Seeking ...

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 765
  I’m late ordering books for my spring class on private equity and venture capital, and am desperately trying to figure out if there might finally be a law school text on this topic.  The constraints are the following.... below the fold.  (ps.  The advice folks gave me on my earlier question re law and econ for a ...
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• Mastery

  
  Union, Trueheart, and Courtesy — Authority: 127
  I enjoy feeling competent. I think that I get the biggest kick out of life when Im able to perform some relatively complex task ably and well. Being at the American Academy of Religion conference sometimes scratches my competence itch. I generally know what people are talking about at the sessions I attend, ...
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• Theological mercenaries

  
  Reditus: A Chronicle of Aesthetic Christianity — Authority: 421
  Henry Karlson has written an essay entitled, Academic Theology for the website Inside Catholic, in which he criticizes the attitude of treating theology as one modern academic discipline among others. As a student of theology in a contemporary Catholic school, he complains that there is a great deal of pressure to ...
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• AZ Town Hall conclusion: “State needs an enema”

  
  Seeing Red AZ — Authority: 511
  The Republic’s new heroine, Sandra Day O’Connor , never the conservative Reagan assumed when he appointed her as the first female on the U.S. Supreme Court, is now poised to save the state with her masterful wizardry. Pairing her O’Connor House Project (referred to as a “civic group”) with the ASU’s ...
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• The Detox Delusion: Kudos to Duke Integrative Medicine Nutritionist

  
  Terra Sigillata — Authority: 598
  Yesterday, the real-life mailbox brought the Pharmboy household the Fall 2009 issue of DukeMedicine connect , a biannual publication on current news from the Duke University Health System. Produced by DUHS Marketing and Creative Services, it "strives to offer current news about health topics of interest" to its ...
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• Life’s paradoxes: On watching the fall of the Berlin Wall in Honolulu, November 1989

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 124
  From Facebook: Subroto Roy  recalls how, twenty years ago in Honolulu, he called his three-year old to the television to watch the fall of the Berlin Wall with him as a historic event — even while he had to battle as an individual against the most vicious tyranny unleashed against him by the Government of one ...
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• getting a Wharton MBA, as seen from the sharp end

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 574
  These are interesting times to be in an MBA program. Here at orgtheory we get glimpses of the faculty view, but what about the students? Gareth Keane is a student at Wharton, and since he started there — he’s now a second year — he’s been writing a column for the Irish Times about life in the program. ...
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• “I get knocked down: Women publishing law review notes”

  
  Feminist Law Professors — Authority: 135
  Rebecca Tushnet writes : I read an interesting article in the Journal of Legal Education (unfortunately not online) about the underrepresentation, relative to law school enrollment and law review participation, of women publishing notes on the main journals of the top law schools. The author theorizes that women are ...
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• IR job opening

  
  Two Weeks Notice: A Latin American Politics Blog — Authority: 517
  This is not related to Latin America, but I know I have a lot of readers in academia, both grad students and professors, so please forward to anyone who might be interested. My colleague and fellow blogger Jim Walsh is chairing the search committee. I will just copy and paste from his blog : Please see the ...
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• ReTweet: the power of twitter

  
  Digital Rights - Sound and Fury — Authority: 125
  An interesting thing happened at a conference I was attending last week. The were three speakers giving talks to all the attendants (c:a 300 people). First up was the minister of communication (unexciting but well formulated explaining new broadband policy), the was James Boyle discussing Cultural Agoraphobia (an ...
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