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Yesterday’s session was the last regular meeting of the academic year. Borrowing a line from his predecessor, Jeremy R. Knowles, Interim Dean of the Faculty David Pilbeam presented departing Interim President Derek C. Bok with a bottle of champagne: “You have brought bubbles to our lives. Let us bring some to yours...
...excluding undergraduates and resulting in unclear rules. Gross promised to create a Web site this summer that would explain “what constitutes improper behavior.” Yesterday’s session was the last regular meeting of the academic year. Borrowing a line from his predecessor, Jeremy R. Knowles, Interim Dean of the Faculty David Pilbeam presented departing Interim University President Derek C. Bok with a bottle of champagne: “You have brought bubbles to our lives. Let us bring some to yours.” —Staff Writer Samuel P. Jacobs...
...current Iraqi battalion commander in south Ghazaliya, Col. Jabar, has a much better reputation here than his predecessor. He comes from Basra, whereas his predecessor, Col. Sabah, grew up in a Shi'ite neighborhood adjacent to Ghazaliya. Both men are Shi'ites, but Jabar has no personal stake in Ghazaliya...
...favorites include Peter Carey's Theft and Alexis Wright's Carpentaria), comes the Perth-based writer's Sorry (Vintage; 218 pages). Just as Sixty Lights segued seamlessly into Dreams, this pained, poetic tale of a young girl wracked by dreams of speaking seems to have been born from its predecessor. "We take it for granted, don't we?" muses 12-year-old Perdita Keene, a free spirit made mute by the violent death of her English anthropologist father near Broome, Western Australia, in World War II. "The inspiration and expiration that presses the vocal folds, the movement of air from...
Early poll results indicate that Nobel Peace Prize laureate José Ramos-Horta has won a landslide Presidential election in the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor. Formerly the country's Prime Minister, Ramos-Horta may very well be trading jobs with his Presidential predecessor, Xanana Gusmão, who is tipped to become Prime Minister after legislative elections slated for June...