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...also the Philippines, though at the time acquiring the Philippines was by no means a goal of the McKinley Administration. Ten days after the Maine went down, on a late Friday afternoon when Long was temporarily out of the office, his dynamic assistant cabled instructions to Admiral William T. Sampson in the Caribbean and Commodore George Dewey in Hong Kong to prepare for decisive action. Long, though by his own account somewhat bemused, did nothing later to counter those orders. So when Congress declared war on Spain on April 25, the U.S. squadrons in both theaters had been heavily reinforced...
...pronounced.Most notably, Kirby last summer initiated an abrupt slowdown of faculty hiring after three years of rapid growth.Several department chairs said recently that they have yet to hear from the dean about whether they will be authorized to carry out their requested searches for new faculty next year.Robert J. Sampson, the Ford professor of the social sciences, said the situation is acute in the sociology department, which he heads.“We are down in faculty from our normal allocation,” Sampson said, adding that the number of sociologists in the department will be two or three...
...original research. The academy tapped Castaneda Professor of Cardiovascular Research David Clapham, Cowles Professor of Anthropology Peter T. Ellison, Lee Professor of Economics Claudia Goldin, Professor of Chemistry and Physics Eric J. Heller, Professor of Geochemistry Charles H. Langmuir, and Ford Professor of the Social Sciences Robert J. Sampson among its 72 newest members. Sampson said yesterday that the news came as a shock. “My first reaction was surprise as I had no idea it was coming,” he wrote in an e-mail. “But of course I am deeply honored...
Starring as Sampson the lion – the unimaginatively-named leader of a band of quirky New York City Zoo animals who try to rescue Sampson’s runaway son (Greg Cipes)—Sutherland brings a level of realism to the beast he portrays that no other actor in the film can attain. This is largely because the timbre of his voice enlivens his feline alter-ego, while most everyone else manipulates his/her accent to the point of incomprehensibility...
...Expect to see weekly jazz and blues nights,” Zebny said. Z Square Cambridge is the Z Restaurant Group’s second restaurant. Their first location, Café Z, is a popular restaurant in Marin County, Calif. Z Restaurant Group co-owner and cookbook author Sally Sampson will oversee the daily operations of the Harvard Square location. “Z Square Cambridge will have a very similar feel to our California location,” Sampson said. “It will be a casual and very comfortable place to eat. Our food will be simple...