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...Island-Hopping in the Pacific At school, all Hanks remembers learning about World War II was that Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, and that the American revenge came on August 6, 1945, when Army pilot Paul Tibbets dropped an atomic bomb from the Enola Gay on Hiroshima. For Hanks, the U.S. armed forces' island-hopping - Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, among other bloody military engagements - was just a blur on a map that seemed impossibly exotic and faraway. "Strange to think that I've become the World War II guy," Hanks laughs...
...were somewhere around episode eight or nine when the ratings for the pilot and the first few episodes came out, and they were massive. Then it became clear it wasn’t going...
...pilot program that provided childcare stipends to graduate students with children will be discontinued after this spring, removing an income supplement on which some students have come to rely...
...pilot program—planned to last three years but extended this academic year to last for a fourth—is limited to graduate students with an approximate income below $80,000 whose children are enrolled in one of the six competitive daycare centers associated with Harvard...
...Although the pilot provided significant financial support to some doctoral student parents, it is not possible to continue the program in its current form,” wrote Natalie Beaumont-Smith of the Office of Work/Life Resources, adding that a working group was “actively exploring new strategies to support doctoral student parents...