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...School students vacationing together in Peru over spring break. On March 31, the last day of the trip, the two decided to go white-water rafting down the Vilcanota River. Joining them were three other women and a male guide. Cooney said in interviews that as the raft sped down the river, it struck a cluster of rapids and capsized and that all six rafters were tossed into the river. Cooney said he ended back up on the raft after the guide pulled him and one of the women from the river, but the other three “started...
...says Rosenblum, who taught at Brown from 1980 to 2001.While Gordon acknowledges that “Harvard is not quite as able to be as quick as other schools that have a slightly more streamlined and slightly less careful process,” he says it has sped up in the past decade and can be accelerated further for competitive cases.But “tenure is a big commitment,” says Kuhn, who estimates that each tenure appointment costs $4 million, taking into account a tenured professor’s salary, benefits, and research expenses...
...course to find that the races were delayed. Even at that early hour the water was horrible.”An hour-plus delay and a race course change later, the Crimson seemed unaffected by the road trip and the adverse conditions. Both varsity entries sped out to open-water leads before the 1000-meter mark and spent the latter 1000 adding more open water to an already one-sided race. “Once you get through a crew, you want to push harder just to continually widen that margin,” said sophomore varsity four-seat...
...Whatever did get accomplished got wrapped up quickly. Hu left right after lunch and the entertainment provided by a bluegrass band. As throngs of protesters decried China's human rights record, Hu's motorcade sped off. For his part, President Bush had plenty of time in the afternoon to hand out the Presidential Environmental Youth Awards...
...lake as part of a program to attract real estate investment and tourism. They'd recommended that local leaders give Yu an audience and consider hiring him. "It sounds like the Great Leap Forward"?Mao's disastrous campaign to boost economic productivity in the 1950s?Yu said, as he sped toward Changgou in a van full of landscape designers. "But maybe I can stop them...