Good morning Mr. and Ms. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Your Perez Hilton, er Perez Hyatt, is tanned, rested, and ready after skipping most of the AHA to join the March on Manchester and do a little swimming and hot tubbing, though I was bumming not to be able to bubble with Ian Lekus, Nick Syrett, and Jen Manion. They were just too busy elsewhere.
I did pick up some juicy gossip in the jacuzzi:
Corporate reorganization alert! Wal-Mart is considering opening a Baltimore branch, right on the Johns Hopkins campus. But like all corporate relocations, it's a zero sum game.
If Baltimore wins, Athens will lose. What will the truckers and confidence men do?
But that's a big if.
One thing for sure. No one will be saving money. But someone will live better.
Still waiting for more news.
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ReplyDeleteBethany Moreton to Hopkins? A move up in the world that would be most deserved!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous (1), try the link now. Anonymous (2), who's to say that Hopkins trumps Georgia, at least in American history?
ReplyDeleteIt might not trump Georgia in American history, but it's still a great department to be in! There have long been excellent people there in European and Asian history too! Terrific colleagues to have...
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ReplyDeleteThis is NOT old gossip. In fact, many people at Georgia (and particularly grad students, who may be low ont he totem pole but would be perhaps most affected by Moreton's and Voekel's departures) have been kept in the dark until very recently. Is Hopkins necessarily "better" at history than Georgia? I don't know. But does Georgia almost deserve to lose these gems? Yes, because it has no money and no common sense and has nearly collapsed on itself.
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ReplyDeleteWal-Mart is considering opening a Baltimore branch, right on the Johns Hopkins campus. But like all corporate relocations, it's a zero sum game.
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