Bureaucracy is the bane of every academic’s life. But who is to blame for its proliferation – and how can it be kept in check? Six academics have their say – while a registrar offers an equal and opposite reaction
Whatever the arguments, Boeing knows it has to get a grip, and part of the plan has been appointing a new CEO who started on August 8. Kelly Ortberg is a 64y-old engineer, and was recently CEO of avionics company Rockwell Collins, where he built a reputation for being a “man of th...
The civil rights injunction permits us to look at the injunction through a different substantive lens-a belief that the underlying claim-to achieve equality for the racial minority-is just. It invites us to imagine that the substantive claim could be just, and to ask then whether theMcKnight,...
Separately, Palestine Legal, a civil rights group, sent the university a cease-and-desist letter in March, accusing the school of arbitrarily restricting student speech and protest, which it said was “incongruous with Vanderbilt’s commitment to freedom of expression.” Most Read Na...
The hydraulic rams took 45 seconds to a minute to push the lighthouse just 5 feet (1.5 meters), and the entire 2,900-foot (884-meter) move took 23 days. The team behind moving Cape Hatteras was rewarded with the Opal Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers, which is the ...
Being a recovering perfectionist myself, I get it. As an apprentice editor, I learned the which/that distinction —thatfor restrictive clauses,whichfor nonrestrictive — and immediately started using it to separate the initiates from the ignorants. Within a few years, however, I’d realized tha...
When the Civil War tore America apart, Teddy’s father had more than enough money to pay for a substitute and thus avoid a draft into the Union Army. If you were to judge the trajectory of TR’s life based on the first ten years of it, you’d probably guess that he’d end up ...
But no matter – I was here to see the story of a young English bookish character (played by Alan Bates) arriving in Greece to revive the fortunes of an inherited dormant Lignite mine and his belief in himself. On arriving in the Athens port of Piraeus he meets Zorba, (played by Antony...
To qualify, get an injunction When the Ring pilot programs started in 2019, they were small. Bexar County set aside 50 cameras for “stalking victims, family violence victims, anybody with a protective order,” Sheriff Javier Salazar saidin a press statementwhen the program launched. Cape Coral...
But this section will give you a head start by intro- ducing you to some of the most common words, many of which (but not all) are French in origin. Types of Disputes and the Names of Participants There are two basic kinds of legal disputes: civil and criminal. ...