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...original records from his collection of the more than thirty albums that Palmieri has produced. Palmieri entertained the audience with his early memories. The son of an electrician and a seamstress, Palmieri grew up playing stick ball and listening to the radio and the music played by his older brother Charlie, who started playing professionally at age 14. “Eventually my father made it with my family and opened up a luncheonette and we made it play mambo, and I was the one who would pick the records for the jukebox. I was the soda jerk and that...
...cycle the campaign starts earlier. This one has been going on for more than a year, with a year and a half still to go. Every day added to the length of the campaign is a day's worth of political stories that need to be conjured up or older stories that need to be stretched just a bit further, like adding water to the soup...
...While teens lack wisdom, however, they're generally spared the long lifetime of frustrations and setbacks that can contribute to murderous rampages in older killers - the fired post office employee or office worker who suddenly reappears and guns down his former colleagues. "We see people with a job or a relationship that defines them," says Dr. Anthony Ng, assistant professor of psychiatry at George Washington University. "When that is shattered, they decide that they have nothing else." Opportunity and unlucky serendipity play a big role too. People with ready access to guns are likelier to use them than people...
...institutional obstacles for any junior faculty member hoping to become a full tenured professor, in addition to being one of the only universities in the nation that does not offer tenured associate professorships.Harvard tends to be relatively unconcerned with in-house promotion since it knows that it can attract older, already established names. This is compounded by the tenure system, which gives tremendous power to experts from outside of Harvard who serve on ad hoc committees, write letters comparing potential appointees, and who know more about citation counts than a professor’s reputation within a department. Furthermore, once...
...Likely much of what will occur at Take Back the Night will involve citing statistics about the prevalence of rape. For instance, younger women are victims of sexual violence at higher rates than older women. Supposedly only one in five rapes is reported to police. And a favorite statistic: 80 percent of rape victims suffer at the hands of someone they know...