Word: summer
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...impending move, likely to occur by summer, has already posed an “enormous distraction” to research, said one professor, whose laboratory, like that of Maniatis, is housed in Fairchild...
...guitar. Seismic, indeed. “When Karen orders, ‘No guitars for Nick!’ it makes you approach things in a different way,” noted Zinner in the SPIN magazine cover story for March. Claiming famed disco producer Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer, and lead singer Karen O’s love of dancing as inspirations, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs promise to drop a record that sounds little like their previous, steadfastly rock-based work.Fans of the YYYs are well aware of Karen’s passion for prancing across the stage at shows...
...masthead of the storied Harvard Law Review, she inherited a journal that had gone unpublished for four issues due to the previous year’s dysfunctional student management. As supervising editor, Kagan played a central role in bringing the journal up to speed, sacrificing much of a summer to complete her predecessors’ unfinished issues.Nearly 20 years later, Kagan rose to lead the Law School, another institution plagued by infighting and discontent. Though it had begun to experience a revival, the school still faced major unresolved issues when she assumed the deanship in 2003.The peace and institutional reform...
...Obama plan appears to be in step with what Iraqis had expected as a result of the Status of Forces Agreement signed by the Maliki government and the Bush Administration last December. That agreement requires most U.S. combat troops to be off the streets of Iraq by this summer and all U.S. troops to have left the country by 2011. (See pictures of Basra's return to normality...
...Pakistan's domestic militants have faced a four-pronged assault since last summer, with counterinsurgency campaigns by Pakistani troops in Swat, Bajaur and the town of Dara Adam Khel - home to a notorious militant arms industry - along with stepped-up CIA-directed missile strikes from pilotless drone aircraft. The seriousness of the Pakistani effort was underlined by the scores of casualties suffered by the military, particularly in Bajaur. The military believes it has the Taliban on the ropes in Bajaur and says the truce there is simply to give Taliban members an opportunity to surrender their weapons. The cease-fire...