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...Vonnegut was born Indianapolis in 1922, the son of an architect. His early life shows the kind of aimless lateral peregrinations of someone who was in the process of inventing a kind of person that hadn't really existed before. He put in a mediocre stint at Cornell before enlisting in the army in 1942, in the teeth of World War II. Shortly afterward - and within a year of each other - two events occurred that would prove to be formative for Vonnegut. In 1944, on Mother's Day, he came home on leave to discover that his mother, an unsuccessful...
...guard Alek G. Blankenau ’10 said. The team met with Amaker last Friday, just one day after convening with the other top candidate, Mike Jarvis. Jarvis, who was mostly recently a coach at St. John’s University, served a four-year stint as an assistant coach for the Harvard men’s basketball team in the late 1970s. “We gave input to the athletic director on what we thought about each candidate, and they’re going to make their decisions from there,” Blankenau said. After meeting...
...already out of the question, made illegal after an athlete decides to join the professional ranks.Most importantly, college competition is often seen as an obstacle to development and improvement. Minor technicalities like class time, playing with teammates of inferior skill, and other collegiate distractions deter such athletes from a stint at a university.The NCAA Tournament, by contrast, offers a stage to those amateur athletes whose majority will never reach the heights of the professional ranks. For most, there will be no appearance in the Olympics, big contract, or long athletic career.That does little to diminish the passion of the Tournament...
...requirements of her position to make outstanding contributions to the quality of teaching and other important activities of the university,” Bok said in the statement. “We all owe her a great debt.” In 1980, during Bok’s first stint as Harvard’s president, Skocpol filed a grievance against the University for gender discrimination after she was denied tenure. Bok and then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky agreed to review Skocpol’s case and offered her tenure after she spent four years at the University...
...Success is possible," said U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, referring to America's operations in Iraq during his valedictory press conference in Baghdad's Green Zone. His 21-month stint over, the Afghan-born Khalilzad is now headed for his next assignment: chief of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations. Smiling in front of reporters in a navy suit and fine, light-blue silk tie, he looked like a man refreshed rather than a diplomat with precious few victories to point...