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...Jacob's sentiments are common. Most Faculty saymoney spent on strengthening department prestigeor improving research opportunities can still be apowerful attraction for professors who areunconcerned with salary...
...Harvard] is pretty low compared toother universities, but that's not enough to makeme move," says Daniel J. Jacob, McKay professor ofacademic chemistry and environmental engineering."I would only move for the directorship of aninstitute or research center...
WASHINGTON: Monica Lewinsky and William Ginsburg are a team no more. The ingenue of the Clinton scandal has dismissed her godfather in favor of two high-powered Washington pros: Jacob Stein, a former independent prosecutor, and Plato Cacheris, who represented Iran-Contra figure Fawn Hall...
...screaming for the exits. At one point, Kinkel raised his rifle to Ryan Crowley's face, but he had run out of bullets and the gun would not fire. Crowley, 14, jumped up and punched him. As Kinkel reached for one of two pistols he was carrying, Jacob Ryker, a wrestler who had been shot in the chest, tackled him. The two boys struggled. Kinkel pointed the gun at Ryker's face, but the wrestler knocked it out of Kinkel's hand and was shot again, in the finger. Other boys piled on the youth and held him until...
...years after the publication of Looking Backward, there appeared a very different view of A.D. 2000. It was a sort of capitalist rebuttal, although by definition the free-market philosophy does not easily lend itself to Utopianism, with its regimented bliss. In A Journey to Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor, Socialism has hopelessly ruined Europe, while the U.S., having absorbed Canada, Mexico and most of Central and South America, virtually rules the world together with its ally, Great Britain. A great-grandson of the dynasty's founder, Astor was a playboy with a serious side. Fascinated by science...