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John F. Kerry, who held the office previously, was elected to the United States Senate in 1984 and since then the seat has been vacant...
...this week was essentially the creation of Charles William Eliot about a century ago. An austere and high-minded man who suffered deeply from having a large, liver-colored birthmark across his right cheek, Eliot was a chemistry professor of such limited talents that when he applied for a vacant chair, the post was given to another man. Crushed, Eliot went to Europe, where he was deeply impressed by the German university system. America, he wrote, must develop "a system of education based chiefly upon the pure and applied sciences, the living European languages, and mathematics . . . The vulgar argument that...
...first reports coming out of Trinidad proved potentially more damaging, however, as correspondents focused on the operation's shaky beginnings, including raids on vacant storage sites. Eventually the press corps was offered a field trip to a captured drug laboratory known as El Zorro. When reporters assembled at the air base last Tuesday, sputtering engine noises drowned out officials' attempts at a dignified briefing. Then DEA's DC-3 got stuck in mud up to its propellers while attempting to take off. Twenty Bolivian MPs finally had to push it out of the mire...
Wasserman and the rival Slater Company have sought permits to build on sites almost across the street from each other--one in the old Sears building at the intersection of Somerville Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue, the other on a nearby vacant...
...some destinations, vacant rooms are already in short supply. The 4,600- unit Aston hotel chain in Maui, Hawaii, is completely booked for much of the summer season. Sales are also brisk at less renowned vacation spots: Rock City Gardens, a scenic 14-acre spot atop Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, Tenn., is attracting 20% more visitors than last year. At Best Western Hotels, the world's largest lodging chain, reservations are up 36% at its 1,892 U.S. hotels...