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...Dean of the Faculty Nancy L. Maull, recommended restructuring public service partly by creating a new position of assistant dean of public service. Last summer and this fall, students from Phillips Brooks House, Inc. (PBHA), the House and Neighborhood Development Program (HAND) and other public service groups spoke at length and repeatedly with Lewis and the search committee about their preferences. Neither person from PBH who applied received the job; in fact, it went to the students' fourth choice out of four, Judith H. Kidd...
Again the top-seeded Tigers proved too tough to overcome, besting the Harvard rowers by a length. The Crimson finished second in the seven-team race...
...University began building a new facility in 1946 for the sole purpose of holding a giant calculator, which measured some 50 feet in length...
British rower Steve Redgrave is a worrier. he claims fretting is essential to winning races. "If you're not worrying, you lose your mental edge," says Redgrave. "Before you know it, somebody comes from out of the woodwork to pull a half a length ahead of you." Apparently the worrying has paid off for him. Nobody has got ahead of Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent, his partner in the coxless pairs, for four years. Redgrave and Pinsent have racked up a string of more than 50 international wins in pairs, as well as four consecutive world championships and a gold medal...
...only a matter of time until even moderately famous writers get the full biographical treatment. The last year saw new biographies of Antoine de St.-Exupery, Andre Breton, and William Morris, to name just a few. And truly major writers are guaranteed at least a handful of encyclopedia-length biographies--three new books on Thomas Mann appeared in the space of a few months last summer...