Word: familiarizes
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...successor in place by the end of the school year, the consultation process with Law School faculty, donors, and students has ended, and the installment of a new Dean is incumbent on when University President Drew G. Faust makes her decision, according to a senior Law School professor familiar with the search process, who, like other faculty members, asked that his name not be used because of the sensitivity of an ongoing search...
...question is familiar, inevitable, and universal. It arises from your uncles at Thanksgiving, from your high school classmates that you run into when you are back home buying dental floss, and from every member of the opposite sex that you meet in a bar once they figure out what “a school in Boston” means...
...broad, macroeconomic turnaround wasn't too far down the road. Geithner is loathe to talk publicly about market behavior, but Treasury officials believe that a tightening of credit-market spreads shows an improvement in confidence. "Risk premia are receding in response to signs of stabilization," says an official familiar with Treasury's thinking. And the recent slight rise in interest rates demonstrates nothing except a market beginning to return to normalcy, not one getting spooked by fears of inflation. Consider that so-called TIPS - inflation-protected bonds - yield 1.5% on the five-year bond and just...
...drone war winnable? The White House routinely dodges questions on the subject, and neither the CIA nor the State Department would talk about the program on the record. But officials familiar with the CIA's operations say at least nine of the top 20 high-value al-Qaeda targets identified last fall have been killed by drone strikes, along with dozens of lesser figures. Many bases and safe houses have been destroyed. On the other hand, Pakistani officials say the majority of strikes have either missed their targets or, worse, killed innocent civilians. The News, a Pakistani daily, reported recently...
...ceremony performed by an imam. The wedding reception will take place in New Jersey, where the bride’s family lives, in July, because the couple wanted to wait until after Aljawhary’s graduation for the festivities. The party will, in many ways, resemble more familiar Western weddings: the veiled bride will wear white as guests feast and dance. Aljawhary and Jou have also been careful to obey Muslim standards regarding courtship, while at the same time trying to adapt timeless traditions to the context of recent Muslim-American immigrant communities. “It?...