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...experience—academic, residential, and social—she brought both the clinical writing program and that school’s then Dean of Students Ellen M. Cosgrove from Chicago to the Charles.These changes have caught the attention and acclaim of legal institutions nationwide and have even elicited dismay from administrators at rival schools that have lost top faculty to Harvard.“Competitors don’t naturally say great things about you, but I think all this has been noticed across the world,” Kagan says.NO LONGER AN AFTERTHOUGHTDespite the structural problems that...
...dismay is tempered by excitement over a new generation of instrument makers who, utilizing research by Nagyvary and others, are producing violins, cellos and violas almost indistinguishable in quality from a Stradivarius. Lin himself often plays on a violin made by a Brooklyn-based luthier, Sam Zygmuntowicz. Idaho-based cello maker Christopher Dungey has made instruments for the world's top cellists. Lin says, "We don't know whether the modern instruments we're using will be, after 100 years of vigorous playing, equal to Stradivarius. They already sound pretty darn good right...
Fleischer, Ari • dismay of at calling on by Obama of reporter for The Huffington Post...
...time to New Jersey’s inaugural ball (the “Garden State Inaugural Gala”). Obama went in and out of several balls, but he stayed at ours the whole time. I tried to leave with him at the end, but to my dismay, New Jersey had other plans for the life-size cardboard cutout...
While many Pakistanis will cheer the court's decision, it has caused dismay in Washington. A U.S. State Department spokesman said the move was "extremely regrettable" and "unfortunate," adding that Washington believed Khan remains a "serious proliferation risk." Analysts believe that the court's decision could prove a source of embarrassment for the Pakistani government just days before Richard Holbrooke arrives in the region for his first visit as the Obama Administration's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Last month, the U.S. State Department slapped sanctions on 13 individuals and three companies for their involvement with Khan's proliferation...