Wednesday, June 30, 2010

A lengthy, ravenous kiss


Bad Writing Contest (Inside Higher Ed)
     The results are in for the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for 2010. The annual award — from the English department at San Jose State University — honors the worst opening sentences for imaginary novels. This year's winner is from Molly Ringle of Seattle: "For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss -- a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil."....
Another U.S. Senator Raises Doubts About For-Profit Higher Education (Chronicle of Higher Education)
     Sen. Richard J. Durbin, a Democrat of Illinois, joined a growing chorus of federal lawmakers voicing concerns about the growth and cost of for-profit colleges in a speech on Wednesday that called for limits on the amount of federal student aid that may be spent on marketing and a review of a rule that allows for-profits to receive up to 90 percent of their revenue from federal aid.
     Mr. Durbin also proposed a ban on companies that acquire accreditation through the purchase of nonprofit colleges, and suggested greater scrutiny of loans that for-profit colleges make to their students….

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Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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