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...absolutely need people to take this job.” Skocpol highlighted the difficulties of the job in a speech at yesterday’s Faculty meeting. “The graduate school deanship is not one that has a lot of money bags in the corner of the office,” she said. “It isn’t one that carries the greatest powers, but it allows its incumbent to learn about the exciting ideas and research and to meet the stellar faculty and graduate students across all of the divisions.” Ellison...
Sarah Huckabee is desperately looking for a volunteer. It's a frigid Des Moines Sunday afternoon and the daughter of the upstart Republican presidential candidate is holding court in her new corner office above the campaign's Iowa headquarters. Her dad, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, may suddenly be a front-runner in Iowa, and in South Carolina as well, but his rising profile has its own complications. Today she is dealing with a shortage of drivers for his motorcade on Tuesday because, lo and behold, they now need two media vans...
...eighth score of the season—by backhanding the puck past the right skate of Connecticut goaltender Jennie Bellonio. The scoring play began when junior Jenny Brine fired a slapshot off Bellonio. Vaillancourt controlled the rebound, touched it around the goaltender, and slid the puck into the lower corner. Both Brine and freshman Liza Ryabkina were credited with assists. “It was a huge effort from Liza and Jenny,” Vaillancourt said. “I was just there for the rebound.” Brine added an insurance goal four minutes later. After Ryabkina...
...begun to slip a bit, partly because of worries about the high oil prices. But when economists look back at 2007, they will probably see it as a turning point in the currency's fortunes. For decades, the rupee has steadily depreciated. Now it seems to have turned a corner. One inkling of the significance of the change can be seen in the entrance fees to monuments such as the Taj Mahal, which have traditionally offered a rupee rate to locals and a higher, dollar rate for foreigners. Last month the government stopped accepting dollars at national monuments, because their...
...generator company) to the more exotic (Zhejiang GuYueLongShan Shaoxing Wine Co., a maker of traditional rice wine). Studying, says Rogers, will pay off: "If you do your homework, buy cheap and remain patient, you should be able to walk over and pick up that pile of cash in the corner that nobody else notices...