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...oughta come to Renaissance Weekend," the anarcho-cartoonist Doug Marlette once told me. "It's the annual meeting of the Bill Moyers wing of the Southern Baptist Convention. The sociology is just gothic!" Doug's ability to offend--gracefully, brilliantly, effortlessly--went into overdrive when confronted by high-minded Dixie earnestness. One year he unveiled his version of the Clinton Memorial at a Renaissance workshop, with Hillary Clinton sitting in the front row: a statue of an unzipped zipper. Doug reveled and rebelled in his Southernness. He wrote a novel about his grandmother, a textile-union militant. He called...
...Jeremy Bloxham, Dean for the Physical Sciences, has agreed to serve also as Acting Dean for the Life Sciences. Doug Melton, who chaired the Life Sciences Council, will now take up his responsibilities as co-chair of the new University-wide department in regenerative medicine. In Doug's case too, there is much to say and celebrate. I’ll make sure that there is an opportunity to do so, and I’ll soon seek your views concerning a successor to Doug...
...Navy admirals, who tend to think more creatively than their counterparts in the hidebound Army. At the White House, meanwhile, day-to-day responsibility for coordinating policy on Iraq and Afghanistan has been taken from long-standing National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and handed to a three-star general, Doug Lute, who opposed the surge from the start. The political team is molting too: longtime GOP operative Ed Gillespie is set to replace Bush senior adviser Dan Bartlett...
Little wonder, then, that Yuma is a tad giddy these days. "Bill Gates isn't coming out here to open a Microsoft plant, so we have to use what we have," says Doug Sanderson, Yuma's city manager. "The ethanol operations are a good synergy with our corn, water, waste treatment, hardworking people, our transportation. It's a good...
...League with five players drafted, while Princeton saw three players selected. Brown and Dartmouth each had a single player chosen.Though he’s the first Crimson player ever selected in the MLL collegiate draft, two other Harvard players have made their way to MLL rosters. Doug Kocis ’05 and Jake McKenna ’04 were selected in the league’s supplemental draft, Kocis to Long Island in 2006 and McKenna to San Francisco this year.As the Crimson’s first-ever MLL draftee, however, Flood is eager to take advantage...