Word: vacant
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...that has incited the most consternation among undergraduates, is the lack of a political scientist in the government department. It has been over a decade since a tenured faculty member has held a position in the department and a year since the junior faculty slot was left vacant...
...Maureen, Davey’s Vietnamese wife who is actually from Schenectady, Andrea Spillman ’07 is a cheerful escapee from Vietnam whose eyes grow vacant as the play progresses and she retreats into a fantasy world. A former child prostitute now ogled and molested by her in-laws, Maureen finds America uncomfortably like the land she has just left. In a cutting satire of liberal guilt, the revelation of Maureen’s heritage sends Davey into a suicidal depression, leaving his wife to fend for herself. The play’s other victim is Harry (David...
...campus without a student center—primarily for lack of land to build one—the vacant lot at 90 Mount Auburn Street screams “student space.” The hole in the ground across the street from Felipe’s Mexican Taqueria and sandwiched between final clubs is no ordinary location: It is the only vacant land in the immediate vicinity of both Harvard Yard and the River Houses. But instead of new student space, Harvard Real Estate Services is building an office complex on the site for the administration of the Harvard...
...kilometers away in Bali, the 32-year-old widow began to cry, remembering the explosion that took the life of her husband in Kuta two years ago. "We cry every time we hear that a bomb has gone off," says the slight mother of three, trembling with an almost vacant look in her eyes. "I still have trouble sleeping...
Around the corner from Tealuxe and Starbucks, the vacant building has been claimed by the founders of Dado Tea, who plan to start steeping and stewing their leaves within the next two weeks...