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Summers’ resignation ended his fever-pitched fight with Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) professors—a battle that was headed for a Feb. 28 showdown when the full Faculty was scheduled to consider a motion of no confidence in the president’s leadership...
...pretty sure he's married, and I generally prefer my men without beards. But there's just no resisting the man's charms. He never tires of discussing the intimate quirks, habits and bodily functions of my beloved offspring, listening raptly to harrowing tales of vomit and fever. He knows all the tricks to turn my shot-phobic toddler from shrieks to smiles. (A bouncy tennis ball and a Thomas the Train sticker usually do the job.) And he keeps on taking my phone calls despite knowing better than almost anyone my capacity for neurosis and hysteria. ("Are you sure...
...idea? No. Are Type A parents going to do it anyway? You betcha. But this only makes it all the more urgent that we have access to approachable, communicative, truthful medical professionals who can talk us down off the ledge when we become convinced that our child's hay-fever sniffles are actually the onset of avian flu. I'd offer you the marvelous Dr. P.'s number, but I'm afraid that if his reputation spreads he'll be swarmed by desperate mommies. I wouldn't want anything to cut into our quality time together...
...Ilan Oren swept Benjamin Ende at No. 3. Ostrow defeated William Simonton in three, while senior Ryan Abraham lost in four games to Nick Malinowski.“Considering that we had a sickness and an injury, number five Garnett Booth is very sick with a fever, and Niko Hardy, who hurt his hand last Saturday and had the bad news that he has to be in a cast for two weeks...the people who came on really stepped up,” Bajwa said. “But all I told them is that matches...
...hours before the most important race of his career, U.S. speed skater Chad Hedrick was a calamity. Thirteen years ago to this very day, his grandmother, Geraldine Hedrick-"my buddy"-died of brain cancer. The combination of grief, cabin fever- he arrived in Torino twelve days before the Games ("rolling around in bed takes it toll on you")-and the pressure of his first Olympic race drove Hedrick to tears. And into the stands, where friends and family tried to calm his down. "I kind of felt like a sissy," says Hedrick...