Word: stints
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...waiting for Third Eye Blind to come on stage at Yardfest, I thought with relish about the beautiful day on which Yardfest 2006 had taken place. The weather this past Saturday had dampened my spirits (and, after a stint on the two story slide, my pants were rather damp too). I wasn’t the only one turned off by the weather: Unlike Yardfest 2006, which packed Tercentenary Theatre all the way back to the Widener steps, this year Tercentenary was less than half full when Third Eye Blind walked on stage. Ironically, Yardfest 2006 had a rain plan?...
...Regents diploma, which means passing seven exams, and toward higher education. They must participate in the city's Learning to Work program, which teaches employment skills, provides college and career counseling, and offers subsidized internships. While not everyone loves his or her internship, Garcia was so inspired by her stint at a youth newspaper that she now hopes to study journalism in college...
...world’s best at the particular kind of science she does, so she will make Harvard a world center just by being here,” says chemist George M. Whitesides ’60, the Flowers University Professor under whom Aizenberg studied in her earlier stint at Harvard. “She is someone we would recruit completely independent of everything else.”Capasso says that Aizenberg will remain a leader in the university setting even though, he says, women scientists confront more obstacles in academia than in industry.“There...
...Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, and the current director of the Global Justice Center. Her seminar, called “Reproductive Rights and the Jurisprudence of Equality in the Context of a Transforming Supreme Court,” is the last she is teaching here as her stint at Harvard ends. When the group reached the river, Verdi’s Requiem sounded from a portable stereo. Benshoof read several quotations, including one from Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel that said, “The opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” After...
...Despite his father's imprisonment and Yeltsin's own record of rebelliousness, the youth proved bright enough to earn an engineering degree, join the Communist Party and launch a career as an industrial apparatchik. After a stint as head of an engineering plant in Ekaterinburg - then called Sverdlovsk - he moved into full-time party work in 1968 and became head of the regional party organization by 1976. His record as a tough and effective administrator attracted the attention of Gorbachev, who in 1985 invited him to Moscow, where Yeltsin was promoted to head of the city's party organization...