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...lectureship created more than 40 years ago but vacant until last week, was finally filled when an Italian economics professor arrived from Bologna Thursday as the first Lauro de Bosis Italian Civilization...
...darkness, in part, for a number of motor-vehicle accidents involving children, including a 16-year-old boy in suburban Chicago, run over en route to school. Californians were chilled by the brutal rape of a 16-year-old girl in Cupertino, who was attacked as she crossed a vacant lot on her way to school. Most schools found it impossible to adjust their hours because of union contract rules, the after-school commitments of school bus drivers and inconvenience to working parents. Thus, many school authorities recommended that children wear light-colored clothing or reflector patches. The Connecticut General...
...movie has the spareness of a classroom documentary, which lends it a nice tone of satire but also often undoes it. The cast, with one exception, is nonprofessional, and their uncertainty and clumsiness with lines not only underplays the drama of the script, but sometimes undercuts it altogether. Vacant-eyed, the actors mumble the dialogue as if reading the instructions on a medicine bottle...
...addition, the speaker of the House of Representatives--or, if that office is vacant, the president pro tempore of the Senate--would serve as acting president until the election, according to the bill...
Berger said yesterday that when the offices of president and vice president are vacant, "a special election was not only authorized, but mandated by the second Congress...