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...There is not that kind of literal blocking of promotions, but if the average length of stay is longer, then the aggregate effect is fewer faculty spots opening up each year,” Tompkins says...
...student who was groped in the Yard described her assailant as a white male, late teens or early 20s, with a pale complexion, dark shoulder-length wavy hair, a stocky build, a wide face, wearing a baseball cap and bright colored clothing...
Outmatched and unable to mount a sustained charge outside its own zone, BU failed to muster a single shot the entire length of the first period, and managed just three in the final two frames despite the Eagles’ reduced pressure in the offensive zone...
...women who endured slavery in this country, only one wrote a book-length account of her life. Her name was Harriet Jacobs, and her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, has one of the more satisfyingly tart closing lines in American literature. Instead of ending with marriage, she writes, "Reader, my story ends with freedom." But Jacobs' story--and the lives of other women who had been enslaved--did not end with freedom. Nor did their troubles...
...after the success of Toy Story 2, Pixar creative head John Lasseter wanted to make Toy Story 3. Disney refused, unless the film would not count as one of the five included in the Pixar-Disney deal. That left Lasseter and Jobs fuming. They were also annoyed by the length of the talks, during which weeks would go by with no response from Disney. A deal was "eminently doable, had it gone quickly," insists a Pixar insider. Jobs, knowing other studios would jump at a chance to get in business with Pixar (Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox are considered...