Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...cards will be sent when any emeritus member of the Faculty, research professor or current tenure-track professors dies. This was a University tradition until the central administration delegated the duty to individual faculties three years ago. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) let this custom slide away, as did all the other schools...
...Before her, there was not a single course that dealt with sexual orientation in the law as a central part of the scholarship," she said. "She gave me a language to look at and discuss issues within the gay and lesbian community in a more complicated...
...seeds have had some success in the NCAA Tournament. Last year, the first time the tournament field had a full 48 teams, six-seed Florida Atlantic won games against top-seed Michigan and four-seed Central Michigan before falling in close contests to Arizona State and Nebraska...
...years, I have suspected that others among the 88 million families who take annual vacations know magical ways to transform an unruly brood into a modern version of the Von Trapps, the tune-whistling family that managed in The Sound of Music to cross Central Europe on foot, without whining over whose turn it was to help the baby over the Alps. Then, a few weeks ago, psychologists at a meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society reported some research I find disturbing: vacations are good for your health, and measurably decrease a man's risk of dying young of heart...
...Giuliani is not even running for president. I thought to myself: This is surely a small, defining moment in the evolution of the New York Times. Normally "the newspaper of record" reserves that central plot of the front page for news of some seriousness and prestige - a war, a merger of corporate giants, Alan Greenspan's blood pressure. But here, in the space set aside for Big History, was the story of Rudy's domestic untidiness - all strictly tabloid, from the pix to the quotes to the heds...