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...smaller states by placing even more power in the hands of the big national governments in Paris, London, Berlin and Madrid. The smaller states objected to Giscard's intention to create an E.U. presidency to replace the current scheme, under which heads of government each serve a six-month stint...
...fact, after thorough research and field observation (including a brief stint as a personal office intern—no, not that kind of “personal”), I’ve concluded that one is only required to have two things to be a senator—age and votes. That’s right, if you’re over 30 and can somehow convince a couple million people to vote for you (it’s even fewer people for the smaller states), then you can punch your ticket for D.C. and six years of blissful...
Coming from a publication that earlier advised us to become “career entrepreneurs,” these platitudes are less than convincing—and not quite enough to reconcile me to taking a job as a mime. A stint as a sex columnist, on the other hand, is looking increasingly promising. Last night, I discovered the puppeteer-grocery-bagger position...
...Lowry isn’t the typical assigned reading. Her schoolteacher demeanor and the subject matter harkened back to the halcyon days of fourth grade. When Fairy Tales Professor of German Literature and Language Maria Tatar announced Lowry’s guest stint, the Sackler lecture hall crowd was abuzz with nostalgic exclamations. Several weeks later when Lowry appeared to discuss her book, more than a few clever students had well worn copies of Number the Stars in hand for Lowry to sign...
...just felt right,” Allard’s trip to Harvard that summer was all that was necessary to seal the deal. Allard became the fourth coach in program history in time for the 1995 season and began what she figured would not be a terribly long stint...