There is some joy in Mudville if you consider the following:

Tim Hudson - Wounded Badly

A. Dvorak - Wounded Badly

Mark Dvorak - Useless

Hanbury - Gone

C Easterling-Moore - Underground

Mader - on vacation

Tim Ryan - wounded - soon to be badly

Thames cuts people loose who are bleeding.  Look at Grimes, et al.  Of course, they get big raises, but they move on.  If this bunch does not think he will cut them loose to save his own neck, you are wrong. 

If he cuts Hudson loose, look for Cynthia to become the new provost.  That is about all he has left of the original bunch. 

If I worked for Angie, who btw, called an emergency meeting last night to find out where they are on the Trent Lott project, after she freaked out at the article, I would be dusting off the ole resume.  Someone needs to be hanging around Kinko's.  I bet it is going to get busy soon.