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...position that became known as dean of undergraduate education was created in 1972, shortly after Warren Professor of American History Ernest R. May finished his stint as the final Faculty member before Lewis to serve as dean of the College...
Finally, when the sports page’s racing writer retired in 1981, Crist landed the job and began his nearly decade-long stint...
Norman Rush is something of an oddity in the world of American letters, a world that sometimes seems to be populated solely by wunderkinder and eminences grises. Born in 1933, Rush worked as a teacher and a rare-books dealer and did a stint with the Peace Corps in Africa before he finally published his first novel, Mating, in 1991. It promptly won the National Book Award. Rush then resumed his silence (and maintained his 1.000 batting average). Now, 12 years later, we have the remarkable Mortals (Knopf; 715 pages), which gives us the late-blooming Rush as challenging...
...opposite side of many a debate with Atkins--points out, you would expect HDL levels to go up with a low-carb diet, since HDL acts as a kind of dump truck for scavenging fatty compounds. It will also take years to determine whether low-carb diets--which stint on carbohydrate-laden fruits and vegetables--increase the risk of kidney or bone damage, cancer and other conditions...
...Mansfield returned to Harvard to pursue a Ph.D., which he finished in 1960. After a two-year stint as a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Mansfield returned to Harvard for good and received tenure...