Word: vacant
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...disclosure added to the rapidly growing list of warning signs that appeared well before the student opened fire. Among other things, Cho's twisted, violence-filled writings and sullen, vacant-eyed demeanor had disturbed professors and students so much that he was removed from one English class and was repeatedly urged to get counseling...
Earlier this year, Takoma Park, Md., A suburb of Washington with a liberal tilt, held a special election to fill a vacant city-council seat. It was the town's latest contest under a 1992 law that allows any adult resident--including noncitizens--to vote for local offices. And since the election occurred at an odd time of year, officials took extra steps to get the word out. They mailed a notice, in Spanish and English, to every home. They sent a second notice to every registered voter. Yet when Election Day came, turnout was light, especially among noncitizens...
...extra semester,” said Crawford, who plans to use the time to work on a book to be titled “Rethinking Urban Space, From the Bottom Up.” She will focus on the Los Angeles dynamics of street vending, garage sales, and vacant-lot transformations. “Even if they may appear to be trivial, they actually are significant in the way they rethink urban space,” she said. “We’ve been working on this project for 10 years, so now I’m going...
...second big-name basketball coach in two days visited Cambridge on Friday. Tommy Amaker, former Duke University player and University of Michigan coach, met with Harvard's players and the athletic administration to discuss the vacant Crimson head coaching position, a day after former St. John's University coach Mike Jarvis interviewed...
...Athletics Department announced last Thursday that Ray Leone, formerly the head coach of Arizona State University (ASU), will take over as the head coach of the women’s soccer program. The position had been vacant since February 12, when former coach Erica Walsh announced her resignation to take the head coaching position at Penn State. Walsh began at Harvard last July after Stephanie Erickson resigned to accept the head coaching position at Northwestern...