Word: stints
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...will also face the challenge of managing money and politics across the more than 90 libraries of Harvard’s 10 faculties.In contrast to Darnton, Verba had more than a decade’s experience at Harvard when he became library director in 1984, fresh off a stint as associate dean of undergraduate education. Before and since, Verba has chaired a litany of committees on sensitive Faculty and University issues—including the faculty advisory committee for this year’s presidential search and groups dealing with Core Curriculum reform, calendar reform, and diversity faculty hiring.Darnton, meanwhile...
...been used to hang inmates from their hands or feet. Waleed Sabih al-Delami, detained after soldiers found suspicious wires near his house, tells TIME the Americans picked up where Saddam left off. He says he was suspended from such a hook three times during his five-month stint in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib. His feet were tied, and his arms were bound behind his back. "They would take a stick and put it through the rope and pull me off the ground," he says. While he was bound and suspended, a military translator stood by him, shouting...
...foundation, which is still in the idea stage and thus remains unnamed, would be financed by Rumsfeld himself and provide funds for Americans with experience outside of government to do a stint in public service...
...migrants must return to their home countries for a year before they can renew their status and come back to the States. No Mexican campesino I've ever met follows that kind of truncated migrant schedule. If he's not allowed to renew his two-year guest-worker stint immediately, he'll simply make another illegal crossing - and return to the same undocumented shadows we were trying to lure him out of. And the $5,000 "fines" illegals who are already here must pay to begin a legalization process? Let's be honest and call it what...
...characters are musicians, giving them perfectly plausible reasons for walking down the street singing, as opposed to, say, Gene Kelly, who never needed an excuse to curl up to a lamppost and croon. "I wanted to make something naturalistic," says John Carney, who wrote and directed Once after a stint as The Frames' bass player, in part because he thinks his 16-year-old niece's generation has dismissed the movie musical genre as uncool. "It's a shame people are missing out," Carney says. He's onto something - Once won the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival this...