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After serving four years as an assistant professor of sociology at Harvard, Neil Gross has accepted a tenure offer from the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he will start teaching this fall. Gross said that he could not turn down the position that the Canadian university offered him. “UBC was able to offer me tenure now, along with a competitive financial package, the chance to teach in an up-and-coming sociology department, and a great life for me and my family in a beautiful, dynamic, international city,” he wrote...
...days, according to Howard Coleman, CEO of Genelex, a Seattle-based commercial genetics lab, which is not involved with the Texas case. It could take several weeks longer, however, to construct a family tree from the results. Once they are traced, however, the children's origins may offer a fascinating look at the family structure of the secretive polygamist sect, as well as insight into the emergence of a tragic birth defect that has plagued the community...
...seems to me that the success of Apatow and company derives from the fact that though their premises offer a lot of vulgar promise, they rarely deliver on that potential full-bore. What they?re really doing, most of the time, is offering twists and updates on the classic romantic comedy formulas, making them acceptable to today?s much younger movie audiences. For example, Forgetting Sarah Marshall seems to be what the academics like to call a ?Comedy of Remarriage.? You know - fairly mature couple splits up, endures some feckless romantic misadventures, then get more happily reconnected...
...However, many critics of the Yardfest headliner seemed to offer up their anti-Gavin rhetoric without hearing a single song; instead, they based their dissatisfaction on an abstract sense of wanting someone “more famous,” rather than judging DeGraw on the merit of his music...
...teaching public school when he received a letter from Harvard inviting him to apply for the position of Director of Bands. Initially, Harvard’s location played a key role in drawing Everett: considering the possibility of pursuing a playing career, he realized that Boston would offer more opportunities for performance than western New York. Over 30 years later, Everett hasn’t left Harvard. “I didn’t realize I’d get so involved in the Harvard thing that eventually the trombone went by the wayside...