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Saheed has worked at the school for 30 years, most recently serving a six-year stint as a dean for one of the school's "learning communities," or subdivisions. But Saheed had never been a principal before this year...
...comedic and brutal, in films including Taxi Driver (a philosophical cabbie) and The Candidate (a shrewd campaign manager) and on the TV hit Everybody Loves Raymond (the title character's hilariously insensitive dad); of multiple myeloma and heart disease; in New York City. He chose acting after an unhappy stint as a monk and won seven Emmy nominations as Frank Barone on Raymond. His signature was finding vulnerability or humor in flawed characters, as in a masterly scene from the 1974 film Young Frankenstein. As the clumsy monster, he performs a soft-shoe routine with his creator (Gene Wilder) while...
...about...the mediocrity and parochial character of the punk scene,” Goldman says, laughing at himself. “Since I felt that I was very clever, it was all expressed in the idiom of the French Revolution”. Yakub broke up after an eighteen-month stint when band members wanted to pursue other interests—in Goldman’s case, political theory. “I have long since moved on,” Goldman says. “I have the ordinary concerns of graduate students.” Goldman says that punk...
Renfrew made a name for herself as an entrepreneur when she acquired The Wedding List, a company she turned into an innovative wedding-gift-and-registry Web-centric business that she then sold to Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in 2001. She followed that stint with six months of volunteering in South Africa and several consulting gigs at small businesses like designer Vivienne Tam and retailer Intermix...
...post-violence, by outlawing stereotypical depictions of indigenous culture. Or, wait, is it American Indians? The list of too-sensitive nouns and verbs is changing and expanding so rapidly I fear I’ll be consigned to writing columns composed only of prepositions by the time my stint in this space is over...