Word: xavier
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...tipping off. Don't spend too much time watching the baseball playoffs, especially the Phillies, whose presence in the post-season will make fans even more bitter. "Today, a bunch of Mets fans should turn their attention to the [New York] Giants," says Christian End, a psychology professor at Xavier University in Cincinnati. "Pick up the paper, and read about the 12 sacks they had against the [Philadelphia] Eagles on Sunday. Unpack the Giants memorabilia from your drawers." Problem is, I like the New York Jets, who are 1-3 and lost to Buffalo on Sunday...
...Then-University President Lawrence H. Summers announced the University’s plans to accept displaced students as visiting students in a Sept. 2 letter to the Harvard community, and the College ultimately enrolled 36 students—10 freshmen, 11 sophomores, four juniors, and 11 seniors from Tulane, Xavier, and Loyola Universities—according to a College-wide letter from then-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...
...lack of overall coordination. “What we don’t have is a comprehensive program. But we now have a plan for that,” said Rosenblum, who is also the Clark professor of ethics in politics and government. Stephen Marks, the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud professor of health and human rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and a member the committee, presented the committee’s forthcoming plan to enhance human rights-related course offerings. While undergraduates currently have the option of taking human rights courses in different departments and of applying...
...what astronomers call the habitable zone: the spot at which temperatures remain comfortable and water can remain liquid. All this has led to a fair amount of astronomical hyperventilating. "On the treasure map of the universe, one would be tempted to mark this planet with an X," said Xavier Delfosse, an astronomer with Grenoble University in France and one of the planet's co-discoverers. Dmitri Sasselov of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, went further, enthusing to The New York Times, "It's 20 light-years [away]. We can go there." (Sasselov did not make it clear just...
...Communications Charles V. Sullivan. Charles Sullivan would not name the other committee members.The administration hopes to have a coaching candidate chosen by the end of next week, with an official announcement released the following week, Sullivan said.According to a report in the Boston Globe yesterday, the committee interviewed former Xavier University coach Bob Stack on Tuesday and is set to speak today with Tommy Amaker, recently fired from his coaching position at the University of Michigan. Sullivan did not confirm the Globe’s report. Jarvis currently works as a college basketball commentator for both ESPN and Yahoo! Sports...