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When the topic turned to diversity on the council, Mahan was quick to point out that he comprises one-half of an all-white all-male ticket...
Garber says that before this year, VES committed itself with Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby to adding two positions in film studies. Connor, as a joint hire, counted as one-half of a position; another joint hire in film studies this term—Assistant Professor Despina Kakoudaki, appointed to VES and the comparative literature department, who is on leave until next fall—was a second half-position...
...current dynasty in the NBA is the Lakers, with Shaq and friends pulling in the younger crowd. They are L.A.’s team (not a hard choice when the alternative is the Clippers), but they’re also always one-half of a marquee matchup no matter whom they play...
...time the eco-terrorists show up--a band of tree sitters, with names like Lynx and Aquarius and Smokebomb, who drop from the skies, rappelling down the trunks of a redwood grove onstage--your head is already spinning. Daughters of the Revolution, one-half of David Edgar's two-play cycle about an American political campaign called Continental Divide, has mostly been talk up to this point. But what talk! The play has nearly 50 characters, rapid-fire dialogue and an impossibly complicated plot involving leftover '60s radicals, skeletons in the closet, the clash between ideals and pragmatism in politics...
Walker, who is six and one-half feet tall and weighs 260 pounds, said he had not planned on entering the competition...