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...permanent dean, he ought not to make any permanent decisions. What, then, is an interim dean meant to do, if not the regular tasks of the position? Perhaps executing a giant institutional overhaul would not be kosher, but suspending a flawed program is hardly a major modification. For the most part, the word coming out of the UC is that Pilbeam’s letter was hurtful and regretful. But who cares? Pilbeam is a professional administrator, not a guidance counselor, and if Council members want to work on serious issues, they must be willing to take criticism. It?...
...other runners who trained meticulously and had spent many hundreds of dollars in airfare, hotel rooms and equipment to take part in the race, the cancellation was a major letdown...
...come to the Middle East. They were touring in support of their latest record, “Get Lonely,” and I couldn’t have been more excited. That is, until about five o’clock that afternoon. “No team in major league history had held a seven-game lead with 17 games to play and not made the playoffs. On Sept. 12, the day the Mets led the National League East by seven games, Baseball Prospectus, the noted statistical Web site, rated New York’s chances of missing...
...discipline, in part to strengthen their position in tax-obsessed New Hampshire. Romney, still ahead but slipping in the Granite state over the summer, has fired back with a radio ad noting that he alone has signed the no new taxes pledge. "I'm proud to be the only major candidate for President to sign the tax pledge," he says, "The others have not." Romney goes on in the ad to make another promise: he vows not merely to hold the line against new taxes but "roll back" those already...
...have come to attend Teresa's miracle count. Normally the process of recognizing a saint takes decades or even centuries. But after Mother Teresa's death, Pope John Paul II waived a traditional five-year waiting period, initiating what some have called a "fast-track" canonization process. The first major step, the establishment of her "heroic virtue," proceeded quickly. However, verifiable reports of posthumous miracles have apparently been scarce. Teresa was beatified after the first one in 2003. But on Sep. 5 Teresa's successor, Sister Nirmala, told Agence France Presse that "We are waiting for a second miracle...