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Gross said Kidd’s technical title is “acting” associate dean, because there was no search conducted for her. It also means that her stint as a director-dean has a time limit...
...Khin Nyunt is considered pragmatic enough to accept that the country needs to grapple with its diplomatic isolation to avoid economic collapse. It was he who helped negotiate Suu Kyi's release 15 months ago from her second stint under house arrest. She was detained again last May and is being held at an undisclosed location...
...tourist trip to Russia with his wife turned into a stint as legal consultant to Okhotin, Steiner said. Pivotal to this new role was an hour-long meeting in which he said he helped Okhotin and his lawyers diagnose weaknesses in the prosecution’s case...
...mother Anne Marie Mattison, left, and his father Jon Wershow, a former county commissioner, that he would serve a tour as an enlisted man, then go to college and officer-candidate school. Jeffrey believed the experience would later earn him more respect from the troops. After a three-year stint at Fort Bragg, N.C., he joined the Florida National Guard and attended Santa Fe Community College. He was also active in politics and helped run the successful re-election campaign of county commissioner Cynthia Chestnut. In December Jeffrey's unit was called up for duty. Wershow was shot while guarding...
Norman Rush is something of an oddity in the world of American letters, a world that sometimes seems to be populated solely by wunderkinder and éminences grises. Born in 1933, Rush worked as a teacher and a rare-books dealer and did a stint with the Peace Corps in Africa before he finally published his first novel, Mating, in 1991. It promptly won the U.S. National Book Award. Rush then resumed his silence. Now, 12 years later, we have the remarkable Mortals, which gives us the late-blooming Rush as challenging and surprising and uncompromising as ever. Ray Finch...