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...years,” Sullivan said. “That’s just how it goes.” But it is simply the hand these players have been dealt. “Just the fact that it’s been three coaches in such a short span of time, the feeling of surprise and shock hits us,” Mann said. “[It’s] not towards Walsh but just anger at the situation, and some of the girls have been placed in it year after year...
...reasons people outside the communion may care about its fate--is that since its 16th century origins as a kind of Roman Catholic and Protestant amalgam, it has often seemed like a mini-experiment in what a global Christian church might look like: one that managed to span the distance between incense-saturated Catholic-style rite and tongues-talking low-church Protestantism, that eschewed hyperdetailed doctrinal tests to maintain a looser Christian understanding, adjusted at regular meetings under the low-voltage, first- among-equals leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury. One of the reasons Akinola is both controversial and potentially...
...expected gains in any particular year. That’s a fair point, but one that can easily be addressed by holding teachers accountable for their performance over the course of two or three years. If every group of students taught by a particular teacher does badly for a span of three years, then something needs to be changed...
...King and scores of his classmates for whom college was financially improbable if not impossible had their horizons raised in a span of seconds last month when Murphy Oil Co., which is based in King's home town of El Dorado, Arkansas, changed the landscape of their future. "The El Dorado Promise," as the company calls it, promises each of the town's high school graduates annual grants of up to $6,000 (the amount is calibrated according to their length of residency in the city) for as many as five years of post-secondary education in institutions anywhere...
...faculty and providing labs for researchers whose work does not fit neatly into an existing department.Hopefully, HUSEC will also soon create University-wide interdisciplinary departments. The Corporation has already expressed specific interest in a Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology that would focus on stem cells. New departments that span the gaps of their traditional counterparts will provide further administrative structure to the interdisciplinary initiative. They will be essential to advancing cross-disciplinary work, as they will be able to more effectively recruit specialized faculty, develop interdisciplinary programs, and request funding for equipment and lab space to conduct research...