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...total number to 102 full-time professors before recent departures for the Obama administration. In the process, she has poached more tenured faculty—including Cass R. Sunstein ’75, the most cited legal scholar in the country—from other institutions during her five-year deanship than during the previous 20 years combined.Other programs that Kagan introduced testify to the six years she spent soaking up a more collegial atmosphere as a University of Chicago professor, her first academic appointment. In an effort to improve the student experience—academic, residential, and social?...
...fine place to close the curtain, with the band flourishing in its contented third act as the one group people of all ages can agree on. Except that U2 isn't quite content. After an almost five-year absence, during which Bono was named one of TIME's Persons of the Year for his work on global poverty and the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the band returns on March 3 with an album called No Line on the Horizon. It offers up a few new hits for the wedding playlist, but No Line...
...appointed to a five-year term as secretary to the Vatican's diplomatic mission in Washington. (He speaks fluent Italian.) He returned to St. Louis in 1992 and was appointed vice rector of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary...
Every industry has its high honors: actors have the Oscars, musicians have the Grammys, and Hef’s Bunnies have Playmate of the Year. For the Harvard literati, one of the highest honors is the Briggs-Copeland lectureship: a five-year teaching position given to authors and teachers of English. Last Thursday, Lecturers Joanna G. Klink and Peter Richards showcased their work in the First Annual Briggs-Copeland Poetry Reading at Houghton Library...
...imprisonment was widely seen as an effort to silence President Hosni Mubarak's most outspoken critic. Nour's wife Gamila Ismail, who organized "Free Ayman Nour" protests, often despaired that her husband, who suffers from diabetes and other ailments, would remain in prison until the end of his five-year sentence in Cairo's notorious Tora prison. And so, when Nour finally arrived at his apartment as a free man, he didn't have keys and nobody answered the door...