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Goodbye to All That

Often the kindest thing you can tell a Ph.D. is to put the dissertation in a desk drawer and move on

By RACHEL TOOR

Last summer, I was asked to lunch by an acquaintance from another university, an assistant professor whose tenure clock was running down. She wanted some advice about publishing.

She explained that she had a year to get her dissertation...

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