Word: baton
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...past two years of public service have placed heavy burdens on my family, and I believe that having this report in hand affords an opportune and appropriate time for me to pass the baton to the next director of the Office for Human Research Protections,” Koski wrote in an Oct. 9 letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson...
FIRED. STEVEN HATFILL, 48, biological warfare expert named by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft in August as a "person of interest" in connection with last year's deadly anthrax mailings; from his research job at Louisiana State University; in Baton Rouge. Hatfill, who has not been indicted or even named as a suspect, says his "life has been completely and utterly destroyed by Ashcroft and the FBI." The university insists that in sacking him it is "making no judgment as to Dr. Hatfill's guilt or innocence regarding the FBI investigation...
...Simon Rattle wields his baton more skillfully than his tongue. A recent interview with the long-reigning wunderkind of classical music - a conversation held in English, translated into German and published in Die Zeit, then retranslated back into English by the British press - came off like a tirade against Brit Art stars Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. ("Much of this English, very biographically-oriented art is bull___.") "I opened the papers and thought, 'I said what?'" he recalls. "It's embarrassing, because it's not what I meant and it's certainly not what I think." Let's hope...
...nine-year-old, music practice can be a drag, meaning parents typically have to wield the baton, if not the whip. Anoushka Shankar was no exception when it came to shirking homework on the special miniature sitar her folks had made for her when she was that age. "They would sit me down periodically and say 'You don't have to do this. But if you do it, you need to be serious about it,' " she says. Anoushka Shankar became so serious that by the time she was 13 she was performing alongside her father, whose name is synonymous with...
Some softening is inevitable. Select markets such as Baton Rouge, La., and Philadelphia dropped 1% during the 12 months that ended last March. Existing-home sales and new starts fell nationally in June. So there are some cracks. "I don't think it's inappropriate for people who are getting battered on their stocks to look around and ask, 'Where else am I vulnerable?'" says Eric Belsky, executive director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard. But economists say that when the housing boom finally ends on a broad scale--and that could be a year or more...