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...always hoped I could do it, but in college I focused on studying…I wasn’t very good at it so it took me awhile to get the hang of how college worked.” After graduation and a brief stint singing in Budapest, Mattison—who began as a stand-up bass player—found himself working a variety of jobs, including a reporting gig in Saint Paul followed by a day job in New York. Fortuitously, producer John Snyder, who would produce Scrapomatic’s first record in 2002, heard...
...President Derek C. Bok’s job look like a walk in the yard.A CANTAB TO THE CORESaheed’s roots with the high school stretch back over three decades. He first came to CRLS in 1974 as a student teacher before eventually serving a six-year stint as a dean. Saheed says he has “a great deal of experience with the students and families in this community”—and that has made his transition from dean to principal smooth, at least so far. He’s a Harvard...
Williamson was a second-round draft choice by the Oakland A's in 1971, out of a small town in Oklahoma called Ada. He was tall and handsome and hard throwing but without much discipline. He lasted six years in the minors, including a stint with the Fort Lauderdale Yankees, before a bad arm and some bad habits landed him back...
...positions. Senior running back Clifton Dawson is the obvious strength, but an offensive line that has cleared holes and given the quarterbacks time has been equally important. Junior quarterback Chris Pizzotti has been excellent in his three starts, just like sophomore Jeff Witt was during a brief stint. Pizzotti completed passes to nine receivers but didn’t hit sophomore Alex Breaux or freshman Matt Luft, two key options in the first three games.Certainly no one is confusing this outfit with the 2004 team that cruised to an Ivy League title (with the exception of Dartmouth and the first...
...three more, Beth-Israel, Deaconess, and Mount Auburn, joined together in 1996.Looking for a leader who would steer the school through a period of change, then-President Neil L. Rudenstine named Martin to the deanship starting in 1997, bringing him to Harvard after a four-year stint as chancellor of the University of California-San Francisco.“The situation at the time was one when the health care system as a whole was in jeopardy.” Rudenstine recalled in a phone interview yesterday. “We needed someone who knew the situation well, which...