“If you’re studying interpretive dance, God bless you, but there’s not a lot of jobs right now in America looking for people with that as a skill set,” he said Tuesday. Kentucky has cut state funding for higher education by more than $200 million since 2008.
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Have You Got What It Takes? Here’s The Met Museum’s Job Description For Its Next Director
Although the museum’s president and chief executive, Daniel Weiss, says the director’s role has not “changed in any material way”, the job description makes clear that rather than acting as the top dog, the new director will be expected to work well with others—especially the museum’s president and board.
Can The Rebooted ‘Will And Grace’ Work In The Age Of Identity Politics?
“Will & Grace pushed well past the broadcast network comfort zone when it arrived with a finger snap in 1998. … Now, however, with the legalization of gay marriage and Transparent and gay characters even popping up on the Disney Channel, … [and] at a time when Hollywood is under intense pressure to avoid stereotypes and to promote diversity from every possible angle, Will & Grace – once seen as the epitome of diversity on television – could actually find itself assailed for being behind the curve.”
How Did The Study Of Linguistics Get So Seriously Off Track?
“Scholars of yore, when reflecting upon language, would wonder things such as: which of the contemporary languages was spoken by the first man? Which one is superior to the rest? And which of the human tongues deserves the label ‘divine’? Modern linguists will not touch those with a 10-foot pole. The oldest language is unknowable, but it was certainly different from anything spoken today. The ‘best’ language is impossible to define in any meaningful way. And as for ‘divine’ – the very word is meaningless in relation to languages, except in a cultural sense.”