Month: November 2009

Gotta love the British press.  According to the FT, this Daily Mail headline from August, “Why ‘meddling’ women in the boardroom can wreck a company’s performance,” is understandably causing some…

Gerard Magliocca has already announced over at co-op that Mary Mitchell, a beloved and long-time professor at Indiana University-Indianapolis passed away earlier this week after a sudden illness.  Indiana University's…

I blogged earlier about the Halloween plans at the Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C., which included friend chicken and a burning of satanic music and books, most notably…

Just to show that decanal scandals aren't limited to the United States, The Australian newspaper yesterday reported that the relatively new dean at Melbourne Law School (James Hathaway, originally from…

Jeffrey Kinsler, a former dean at Applalachian School of Law, has been named the inaugural dean of Belmont University College of Law, in Nashville, Tennessee.  The law school plans to…

Via Historiann, Johns Hopkins students are annoyed that Hopkins is playing Harvard in "The Social Network," a movie about the creation of Facebook by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. Ernst on…

In full disclosure, fellow blogger Tim Z suggested it would be fitting for me to blog about the following.  Yesterday, the World Economic Forum released its new rankings of the…

I've been laid up with H1N1 for over a week now, so perhaps that makes me particularly obsessed with health issues.  (I can't recommend the disease at all; my fever…

I’ve been remiss in not finding time yet to blog about Flynn v. Holder, the suit filed by the Institute for Justice challenging NOTA’s prohibition against compensated bone marrow donation. …

We've been following for a while the roll out of Greil Marcus' and Werner Sollors'  A New Literary History of America, along with the discussion of it as an innovation…