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...founder of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The 40-room hotel, which is located on a 450-acre estate in Galway, is most famous as a fly fishing destination, with its salmon and sea trout fishery. If you prefer food with feathers, there's woodcock shooting, and for more peace loving folks, there are plenty of walking and riding trails and wildlife to see. Rates start at $320 per night. Connemara, County Galway, Ireland...
...Dean of the College Thomas W. Novak. Novak reports 133 applications to the program this year, a bump from the usual 80-100. He attributes the school’s increased popularity to recent high-profile hires, such as the NEC’s new President Tony Woodcock. There are similar programs at Columbia, with Julliard; Yale College, with the Yale School of Music; and Johns Hopkins, with the Peabody Institute...
...find out where problems arose in the supply chain and why. French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Aventis told French regulators and the FDA that it too had found and recalled tainted heparin last spring. (Baxter pulled all its heparin from the market last January.) In April, deputy FDA commissioner Janet Woodcock said the agency had traced the contaminated heparin api, which ultimately found its way to companies like Baxter in 11 countries, to 12 separate Chinese companies. To date, those 12 firms have not been identified by the FDA, Baxter or SPL. But the "working hypothesis," as Woodcock...
...haven’t you heard? The republic is fighting overseas wars and struggling with immigration issues. The housing bubble just burst, and people are getting old fast. To top it off, there arrived, a few weeks ago, an unnecessary film unnecessarily titled “Mr. Woodcock.”It’s a damn mess is what it is.A few weeks ago, a former associate professor from Harvard’s government department joined the fray, publishing a near 2000-word op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the state of liberal education at the College...
...After leading a Texas high school football team in Friday Night Lights last fall and bossing around a scrappy bunch of Little Leaguers in this summer's Bad News Bears remake, Thornton Jr. is donning the whistle once again to play next year's Mr. Woodcock, "the P.E. teacher we all had growing up, but a little darker," the Bad Santa star says. His portrayal of the sometimes sadistic Woodcock, Thornton says, was influenced by his dad Billy Ray, "a very good high school basketball coach but also a hard-ass." The Arkansas-born actor believes the kind of discipline...