Well, here goes anything: No basket counts unless the player making the shot can also give the correct answer to an academic question fired at him by the nearest referee.
"Every day academics are fired or called traitors by the government".
"Every day academics are fired or called traitors by the government for speaking their minds and telling the truth," said a professor at a major Turkish university who earned his PhD in the US and then returned to his native country to teach.
The translators include many such scholarly asides and detailed notes, as if themselves inadvertently recalling Nabokov's mocking novel of academic endeavor, "Pale Fire".
Different universities have wildly different workloads in the first few weeks, and for Holden, a former student at the University of Oxford, starting university was an academic baptism of fire.
Various academic studies on fire setting, especially in adolescents, have found correlations with the presence of "environmental stressors": an unsafe physical environment, dysfunctional family relations, physical abuse or emotional neglect.
Bush supporters in state legislatures in several states put pressure on regents at state universities to penalise or fire academics who have been critical of the administration.
The academic, who was fired from his post at Ankara's Gazi University before being reinstated in the uproar that ensured, has signalled he will appeal the verdict.
But Dr. Bowen had become a symbol of the fight for academic freedom, and firing him might have made him appear something of a martyr.
This morning, one of the nation's biggest for-profit colleges, ITT Tech, announced that it has permanently shut down its academic operations and fired the "overwhelming majority" of its more than 8,000 employees.
