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...role as acting dean this year mainly as working toward several goals, among them helping departments to attract the best graduate students, continuing to bring down the average length of time it takes to get the Ph.D., and improving the training and mentoring graduate students receive as papers," Tarrant said in an e-mail message. "These are long-term initiatives where progress has already been made by Dean Wolff, and I hope to keep up the momentum...
...June 10 contest on the Thames River in New London, Conn. the Crimson broke the upstream record for the third year in a row, Harvard (18:41.9) finished a full boat-length in front of the Eli (18:45.5), splintering the previous mark by more than 10 seconds...
...junior varsity followed suit, easily defeating a weak Yale squad by a five-length lead. The freshman crew failed to complete the sweep, however, falling by more than 12 seconds to the Yale rookie crew...
...deal showed that the strategies of media kingpins are as fickle as a hemline length. For most of this year, Turner angled desperately to buy a TV network, first nbc in January and cbs until only a few weeks ago. Levin, for his part, had been talking of unloading the company's long-held 19% stake in tbs in order to pay down debt. The game changed when Disney and Cap Cities eloped, raising the ardor and insecurity of moguls everywhere...
...score until they see a rough cut of the finished film. In the early stages, says Horner, he may work on themes and instrumentation, but "I can't really start weaving the quilt until the film is locked, since I'm writing to sequences of fixed footage and length. In Braveheart I wanted to help the feeling of the fellow being a hero and a martyr. Most people would have scored his execution differently. I chose to score it softly, with strings and a boys' choir. To me that was the color of his sacrifice...