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...Award, and a new program, the Director’s Transformative Award. Last year, the institute awarded $138 million in New Innovator and Pioneer awards. This year, an additional $210 million dollars was made available in grants, including $23 million that was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act??or the stimulus bill...
...never had? Part of the answer seems to be that Pearl Jam has never before been so at ease with themselves. On their early grunge albums, melodramatic tales of abuse and depression fit into a wider theme of anger at the vicissitudes of life. On “Riot Act?? and “Pearl Jam,” their most overtly political albums, Eddie Vedder sounded like he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. “Backspacer,” by glorious contrast, features Vedder and the band deriving immense enjoyment from their...
...wife and his will, finds his taste for the sport revived—if briefly—after sparring with recreational boxer Ernie Munger, only a teenager when Tully encourages him to turn pro. The classic boxing arc would pit these two against one another in the final act??vitality supplanting experience, in expectedly American fashion—but as Munger emerges as the novel’s other main protagonist, the two barely meet one another again.What at first appears to be an unresolved narrative gives way to something far more beautiful and profoundly troubling...
...will be only the second case to see trial under the landmark Digital Theft Deterrence Act??which imposes up to $150,000 in penalties for each instance of willful copyright infringement. Approximately 30,000 people have settled fines averaging $3,000 to $12,000 out of court since the law's passage in 1999. The first case tried in court ended in a mistrial...
...side has to make tough choices at the expense of the other, things unfold a little less clearly. In the midst of an unprecedented financial crisis, when job cuts at the University seem inevitable and the union’s role is more important then ever, the balancing act??between effective partnership with the University and aggressive advocacy to save jobs—is a difficult one. For Jaeger, the man charged with maintaining the uneasy equilibrium, the job has not gotten any easier...