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Donahoe, unable to extricate herself from Feeney's grasp, could only watch as Howland punched the ball into the vacant...
This summer, Vice President for Administration Sally Zeckhauser floated an early retirement offer to approximately 870 eligible employees. The University expects about one quarter to one half of those eligible to take the offer, and some of those positions left vacant will not be filled. The cost-cutting maneuvers have only begun, and while Scott won't say what kind budget cuts the University is likely to want, Harvard will surely be wearing its tightest of belts at the bargaining table...
...there is hardly any consensus among students about whether Thomas should be approved for a post on the nation's highest judicial bench. Yet there is one recurring theme echoed by most of the students interviewed: While they would like to see a Black judge fill the seat left vacant by Justice Thurgood Marshall, they are more concerned with Thomas's ideology than his race in assessing his credentials for the high court...
...alternative-schools movement of the early 1970s gave parents in some cities options beyond sending their children to the neighborhood school. Prodded by desegregation orders from the courts, many urban school districts now practice open enrollment, which permits parents to place their children in any public school with vacant seats as long as racial balance is maintained. Some of these public-school Choice experiments (notably Cambridge, Mass.; St. Paul; and a New York City district in East Harlem) have been praised for encouraging innovation and raising student performance...
...most pressing appointment for Gates is a senior historian, a post left vacant with the death of DuBois Professor of History Nathaniel I. Huggins in the fall...