Word: knolls
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While the search committee is considering external candidates, it has not ruled out an internal hire either, according to committee member Andrew H. Knoll, who is Fisher professor of natural history and professor of earth and planetary science...
...committee is currently meeting about once a month, Knoll said, but they are not quite ready to make an offer...
Cutler, Fisher Professor of Natural History Andrew Knoll and Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar currently hold these academic deanships. The deans, who each serve three-year terms, organize the ad hoc committees that advise Summers on all tenure cases. Cutler said that there are typically 30 to 35 ad hoc meetings per year...
...buses when we heard three sharp, strange sounds from an ugly building 50 yards in front of us. CBS correspondent Robert Pierpoint, who had covered the Korean War, leaped to his feet and said, "Those sounded like gunshots." In a few seconds we saw the chaos on the grassy knoll, people facedown clutching the earth in panic, the motorcade chopped in two, Kennedy's limousine racing over a hill toward the hospital...
...journalists were on the scene for many of these red-letter days. Contributor Hugh Sidey, who was riding 50 yards behind President Kennedy that fateful Friday in Dallas, heard three sharp noises, saw the panic on the grassy knoll and later stared into the limousine with the crushed red roses on the front seat. Executive editor Chris Porterfield was backstage at The Ed Sullivan Show when the Beatles made their first appearance on Feb. 9, 1964, and recalls the "piercing din of screaming. That noise level was something new in pop performances--beyond Frank Sinatra's, even beyond Elvis'." Retired...