Word: stints
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After his two-term stint as President of Iran that ended in 2005, Mohammed Khatami appears reluctantly ready for act three. Known as the most liberal but least effective President since the Iranian revolution, Khatami put an end to months of widespread speculation surrounding his political comeback on Feb 8th by announcing his plan to run against incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran's Presidential election in June...
Hammonds also asked her colleagues to consider what should happen during next year’s inaugural January ‘J-term’—the four-week stint in next year’s revamped University calendar whose structure remains uncertain. Even the name of the period remains unclear. But Hammonds has settled on calling it the “January experience...
...crop the canvas of their subjects’ lives, and “Notorious” solves this problem by deciding not to crop at all. After opening with Wallace’s death, the film breezes through his childhood in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, his stint as a drug dealer, his meteoric rise to fame, and finally the East Coast-West Coast beef that ultimately cost him his life. Occasional narration from Biggie (Jamal Woolard) smooths over the narrative transitions, but Voletta Wallace (played by a surprisingly stilted Angela Bassett) awkwardly butts in as a second...
...Obama advisers say, the more urgent push is filling the top slot at HHS. Aides believe that the crop of current and former Democratic governors provide some possible candidates who have the right credentials. Among them is Kansas' Kathleen Sebelius, who served a stint as the state's insurance commissioner before being elected Governor. Sebelius has the advantage of having already been vetted by the Obama team, in last summer's Vice Presidential search, but she also withdrew her name for Cabinet posts' consideration in early December, citing the deteriorating budget in her home state. Other possibilities include Pennsylvania Governor...
...health care plan—a hot-button issue during the presidential campaign—and said he will continue to work on health care policy in D.C. Cutler first came to Harvard in 1991 as an assistant professor, received tenure in 1997, and recently finished a 5-year stint overseeing the Faculty’s social science departments as divisional dean. Outside academia, Cutler has served on President Clinton’s Council of Economic advisers and on the National Economic Council, in addition to advising both Bill Bradley’s and John Kerry’s presidential...