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		<title>Coaches First</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 14:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 13, 2013 What do we value? Sometimes a picture does tell it all. Last week, Reuben Fischer-Baum at Deadspin produced this graphic asking Is Your State&#8217;s Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably). The uniformity tells you something very powerful is &#8230; <a href="http://dougbennettblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/coaches-first/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbennettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19865707&#038;post=2466&#038;subd=dougbennettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should Everyone Go To College?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 10, 2013 Or perhaps this should be titled &#8220;College Costs: the Dishonest Conversation (3)&#8221; (see below). Must reading this week is a report from The Brookings Institution by Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill titled Should Everyone Go To College?  &#8230; <a href="http://dougbennettblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/should-everyone-go-to-college/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbennettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19865707&#038;post=2459&#038;subd=dougbennettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meanings: &#8220;Public&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 13:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 8, 2013 &#8220;Public&#8221; means of &#8220;of or pertaining to the people,&#8221; and its etymology is straightforward from a Latin term meaning the same thing. From etymology.com: public (adj.) mid-15c., &#8220;pertaining to the people,&#8221; from Old French public (c.1300), from &#8230; <a href="http://dougbennettblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/meanings-public/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbennettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19865707&#038;post=2455&#038;subd=dougbennettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meanings: &#8220;Thespian&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 20:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 6, 2013 Thespians unite! News from all over: &#8220;A troupe of street drummers got a shock when Helen Mirren, dressed as Queen Elizabeth II, emerged from a London theatre to berate them for disrupting her show,&#8221; reports The Telegraph, &#8230; <a href="http://dougbennettblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/meanings-thespian/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbennettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19865707&#038;post=2452&#038;subd=dougbennettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meanings: Bologna—or is it Baloney?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 2, 2103 Today, Language Log sorts out the derisive term &#8220;bologna,&#8221; or should we say &#8220;baloney&#8221;?  Mark Liberman explains that it isn&#8217;t even clear that &#8220;baloney,&#8221; as an expression declaring some statement to be nonsense, is even related to &#8230; <a href="http://dougbennettblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/meanings-bologna-or-is-it-baloney/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbennettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19865707&#038;post=2447&#038;subd=dougbennettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meanings: &#8220;Probe&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://dougbennettblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/meanings-probe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 14:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 1, 2013 &#8220;Probe&#8221; comes from Latin probare, which is also the root of our word &#8220;prove.&#8221; By the early 15th century it had come to refer (says etymology.com) to an &#8220;instrument for exploring wounds&#8221; and also to &#8220;an examination.&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://dougbennettblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/meanings-probe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbennettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19865707&#038;post=2444&#038;subd=dougbennettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meanings: &#8220;POSSLQ&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 15, 2013 I was reminded yesterday of &#8220;POSSLQ,&#8221; a Census Bureau term introduced in the 1970s to collect data about co-habitation in the United States. &#8220;POSSLQ&#8221; is an acronym for Persons of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters.  The term &#8230; <a href="http://dougbennettblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/meanings-posslq/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbennettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19865707&#038;post=2437&#038;subd=dougbennettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Governance of Nonprofit Colleges and Universities</title>
		<link>http://dougbennettblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/governance-of-nonprofit-colleges-and-universities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 14, 2013 In Friday&#8217;s New York Times, health economist Uwe Reinhardt writes a column about &#8220;The Governance of Nonprofit Hospitals.&#8221; He comments on the recent, much discussed, article by Steven Brill in Time magazine entitled &#8220;Bitter Pill: Why Medical &#8230; <a href="http://dougbennettblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/governance-of-nonprofit-colleges-and-universities/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbennettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19865707&#038;post=2434&#038;subd=dougbennettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Far-Flung Alumni: Bob Mantock</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 27, 2013 Bob (Robert M.) Mantock passed from this life the day before yesterday. He was not a graduate of Earlham, but he made himself a valuable member of the Earlham community through service as a member of the &#8230; <a href="http://dougbennettblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/our-far-flung-alumni-bob-mantock/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbennettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19865707&#038;post=2427&#038;subd=dougbennettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Annals of Transparency: Big Ten Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 25, 2013 Or perhaps we could call this &#8220;Does Sports Build Character: Honesty Edition&#8221;? Here&#8217;s a fascinating piece reprinted in its entirety from Inside Higher Ed this morning: U. of Maryland Didn&#8217;t Keep Copy of Big 10 Contract March &#8230; <a href="http://dougbennettblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/annals-of-transparency-big-ten-edition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dougbennettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19865707&#038;post=2414&#038;subd=dougbennettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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