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Nearly 300 college presidencies in the U.S. are vacant this year-which suggests that the nation desperately needs a pool of skilled academic administrators. In the past, the grooming of college chief executives has often owed as much to chance as choice-a reluctant professor unexpectedly does well when his department's revolving chairmanship is thrust upon him, a dean displays a special talent for public relations or fund raising, a learned Government official wants an academic post...
...more than a year. However, not all the refugees live in the camps. In the chaos of their first desperate days of flight, thousands found their own shelter as best they could. Hundreds of them still sleep on the sidewalks of Amman, and hundreds of others live in vacant cellars or shallow holes gouged out of the city's rocky hillsides. "We don't know where many of them are," says Reconstruction and Development Minister Hazem Nusseibeh. "If we don't make contact soon, many of them will die during the winter...
Specifically, the deans are asked to oversee advertising and recruiting for the post, which will become vacant when Superintendent John M. Tobin resigns next June. They will also "interview and evaluate all candidates," making recommendations to the School Committee...
Harvard announced yesterday that it has filled two previously vacant chairs in the English Department with men already on the Faculty...
...reminded that he is disgusting. In the principal roles, Morgan and Kendall seem paralyzed-presumably less by fear than by the knowledge that they are supposed to be stretching a one-set drama into a feature film. Despite some flashy hall-of-mirrors camera work, Penthouse is as vacant as a house for sale, emptied by film makers who couldn't let hell enough alone...