Word: stints
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Last May, on the tail-end of his stint as FAS dean, he told The Crimson that he would stay on as long as President Faust asked him to, though the job was taxing...
...China's first roving citizen reporter on the Internet ended abruptly last December after he was punched in the throat by an angry policeman in the northeastern city of Shenyang. Zhou's offense: investigating a bizarre pyramid scheme involving ants and aphrodisiacs. The assault took place during a short stint in jail, after which plainclothes cops escorted Zhou to the airport and put him on a plane home, with dire warnings about what would happen to him if he returned. The small, bespectacled 26-year-old took heed. "I will keep silent now because I want to save...
...even before that flip-flop, Sarkozy's sudden admiration of all things holy starkly contrasted his carefully constructed public image: the repeat divorcee, whose stint as potentially France's most eligible bachelor is endangered by what Sarkozy himself called his "serious" relationship with former top model Carla Bruni. Given that somewhat hedonistic reputation, Sarkozy's expression of newfound piousness led author and famed social commentator Bernard-Herni Lévy to muse in the weekly Le Point over "the probable stupor of Cardinals listening to the apostle of the bling-bling presidency (and) uninhibited relationship with ostentatious pleasure...
...Medical School at 19 after graduating cum laude from Ohio State University and coauthoring his first academic paper. While still at the Medical School, he developed one of the first internal pacemakers to help keep damaged hearts beating. He graduated magna cum laude in 1957. After a two-year stint in the Navy, during which he helped invent implantable controlled release drug therapy, Folkman returned to Boston. He served 14 years as the surgeon-in-chief at Children’s Hospital and then turned full-time to the research for which he is best known. Folkman was appointed...
Most of the team has been back in Cambridge since Dec. 27 preparing for a nine-day, five-game start to the year. They were, however, without Cahow, who returned to the team Jan. 1 after a stint at the USA Hockey Women’s National Camp in Lake Placid...