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...latest studies. It has been five years since the drug Gleevec, introduced at this conference, electrified doctors, grabbed headlines and changed the way doctors think about treating cancer. Because Gleevec was exquisitely targeted to interrupt a specific step in the cancer cell's growth process, it heralded a new era of kinder, gentler treatments that would pack all the anti-cancer wallop of chemotherapy without the toxic side effects...
...Matt have been buddies since freshman year,” he said. “We’ve been waiting to go back-to-back for four years now.” The year wasn’t perfect, of course. Brunnig’s ERA finally settled at 5.88, for one. But for a pitcher whose potential originated in part due to a curiosity—whose career has been more frustratingly inconsistent than anything—he put it together in his senior year like never before. “I’m real proud...
...were hostile to it as I remember, and I suspect the bulk, like me, voted on the grounds that it was premature without further work.”WRIGHT AND WRONG“The Skocpol affair more expressed tensions than caused them, I think. This was an era of charged political atmosphere,” recalls White. Indeed, the Sociology Department was not the only one to be accused of discrimination. In the spring of 1981, Josephine P. Wright, a former assistant professor of African and African-American studies, was denied tenure and then was refused a one-year extension...
...dangling over the sofa’s edge and my head resting against his chest, I knew of no place else I’d rather have been. And though it wasn’t clear to me then, he would undoubtedly have said the same.We live in an era in which a parent’s merely showing up to his or her child’s baseball or soccer game is often regarded as an atypical or even a heroic act. Dad, for his part, never saw it that way. Though his job kept him plenty busy...
...Fenway Park. In Game 1 against Dartmouth, Haviland was his normal, sparkling self, twirling ten innings of six-hit ball in a 2-1 extra-inning win, a performance that may well have secured Ivy Pitcher of the Year honors for the sophomore. He boasted a microscopic 0.73 ERA in five regular-season Ivy decisions. But losses in games two and three forced a decisive finale in Hanover. After squandering several leads, the Crimson ran off the final 14 runs in a 23-9 triumph behind a monster effort from Klimkiewicz, returning to action from an elbow injury...