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...Vincent Cheng bristles at the suggestion that ethnicity played a part in his becoming chairman of Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. last month. "I don't see myself as different from my Indian or British colleagues," he says. But Cheng--the former anticolonial student leader who is the first Chinese to head the once colonial bastion--has long defied expectations. After being detained in the early 1970s while protesting for better treatment of Hong Kong's poor, he became an in-house adviser to the colony's British Governor in the late 1980s. Now he will have to prove...
Both Rudenstine and Summers rejected between 5 and 10 percent of tenure cases that came to them for review during “comparable periods,” according to FAS Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Vincent Tompkins through a University spokesman. Tompkins declined to elaborate through the spokesman as well...
...also didn’t hurt that they had perhaps their top skipper back, as junior and next year’s captain Vincent Porter returned from a semester abroad to buoy the team’s finishes...
...education in the College would be well-served by creating a semi-permanent adjunct faculty, and do not feel that the academic careers of individuals who are appointed as teaching assistants would be advanced by long-term employment in this category,” Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Vincent Tompkins wrote in an e-mail...
...Vincent Delerm cuts an unlikely figure for a pop star, especially a French one. There's no trace of Johnny Hallyday's leathery ostentation, no hint of the designer brooding of a Jean Michel Jarre. With his self-cut thatch of prematurely graying hair, the 28-year-old Delerm prefers casual clothes and tennis shoes, and professes to have neither a computer nor an e-mail address. Though he doesn't dress the part, Delerm can still pull in the crowds. Last month, he played a sold-out five-night stand at the famed Olympia concert hall in Paris...