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The article lost my interest when I couldn't find any reason why they were denied tenure.

> I couldn't find any reason why they were denied tenure.

The subjects are happy to share their experience of getting denied, but they're probably too embarrassed to share why that happened.

Sounds like they didn't get the tenure because they can't analyze the situation.

What's the situation?

We dont know because author did not speak about it at all.