Word: ushered
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...January of last year, Frank Haggerty ’68 stepped down from his position as director of the Harvard Track and Field team, a job he had held for the previous 24 years.It didn’t take long to usher in the new, though, and only ten days later, Jason Saretsky, an associate head track coach at Iona College, was named as Haggerty’s replacement.Having graduated from Columbia in 1999, Saretsky brought youthful vigor to the program as well as some middle-distance and distance expertise. In his last four years at Iona, he helped coach...
...Valenti, who died Thursday at 85 from complications of a stroke, seemed a good fit for that antique era. A hardscrabble Texas kid who at 14 had worked as "an usher in a second-run theater in Houston called the Iris," he flew 51 combat missions for the Air Force in World War II, got a Harvard M.B.A. on the GI Bill and hooked up with a back-home politician named Lyndon Johnson. Valenti was the Vice President's press rep on a trip to Dallas in November 1963 and stood next to him on the flight back to Washington...
...about 400 meters, the Crimson had made up the few seats it had lost and drew level with the Bears before pulling ahead in the third 500 to usher in a five-second win of 6:31.4 to Brown?...
...Justice Anthony Kennedy's ruling in the Lawrence case was greeted enthusiastically by those who thought it would usher in a new era of privacy rights. But lower courts have been very careful about interpreting the decision. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, for instance, twice rejected efforts to broaden Lawrence. In 2004, it upheld Florida's law prohibiting gay adoptions by saying the importance of providing for children gives the state the right to set rules for their adoption. And later that year, it ruled that a district judge in Alabama had erred in using Lawrence to strike down...
...little more than stop and smile and smell the flowers-was a palatable panacea. Later purchased by the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Koons' Postmodernist sculpture would become a global mascot for contemporary art. But back in Sydney, Puppy played a more practical role, too. Its presence helped usher audiences through into the MCA to see the country's best private collection of Minimalist art, from Carl Andre's bricks and Donald Judd's wooden boxes to Sol LeWitt's color-by-number wall drawings...