Word: northeastern
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...Harvard faculty this year as an assistant professor of astronomy. “It’s hard to get one job and then to get two jobs in the same city is just that much harder.” Finkbeiner’s wife is a professor at Northeastern University...
...Finkbeiner asked to defer his position for a year to give his wife time to complete the job application process. Cram received an offer for an assistant professorship at Northeastern and both assumed their new posts this fall...
Watching the lawyer Chen Bulei argue his case, it was easy to forget that he was almost certain to lose. Pacing confidently before a packed courtroom in the northeastern Chinese city of Haicheng earlier this year, he scored rhetorical points so deftly that sympathetic onlookers pumped their fists like fans at a sporting event. Chen's client, a 56-year-old talc miner named Zhao Jitian, was on trial for "assembling a mob to disrupt social order"-a politically charged criminal offense often invoked to silence Chinese citizens who band together to air grievances against their employers or the government...
...team’s younger members got to experience the “excitement of a big meet atmosphere,” hopefully preparing them for future competitions. The team’s most important early-season tests will come in two home meets in January, when it faces Northeastern in a dual meet and Brown and Cornell in a tri-meet. Although Coach Saretsky maintained that the nature of the Harvard Invitational makes it hard to get any indication of the team’s overall improvement, he said that certain notable individual performances were certainly a good sign...
...sponsored by Wis.Dm, an online social networking device with headquarters in Kendall Square.Greenbaum and Ingber, who are in the process of starting an official student group for stand up comedians, performed in the show along with a number of Harvard students and some students from Tufts and Northeastern Universities. The results, though initially awkward, ended in a rip-roaringly irreverent time for all.THE SHOW BEGINSBefore the show even started, the audience was worked up.Despite the “no food or drink” rule, alcoholic beverages in various containers seemed to be prevalent. After allowing some time...