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...first vice provost for international affairs last week. Describing his successor as someone who is open to different modes of research in social science, Domínguez said he was certain he was leaving the Center in good hands. “She will be a splendid director, she is a one-woman walking encyclopedia of interdisciplinary social sciences,” he said. Simmons’ 1994 book, “Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1923-1939,” garnered a Political Science Association Woodrow Wilson Award. In addition...
...pleasure - mine, anyway - to come to Cannes knowing that, every two years, Pedro can be counted on to bring another splendid film. Is Volver a masterpiece? Probably not. But it is the work of a master still at the peak, the high plateau, of his form...
...However dismissive Kaufman the writer was to the political process, Kaufman the director knew how to put on a splendid show. Of Thee In Sing, then and now, begins with convention delegates bearing such placards as "Wintergreen - the Flavor Lasts," "Vote for Posterity and See What You Get" and the meta-cynical "Turn the Reformers Out." The first act climax, set in Madison Square Garden, intersperses the political rhetoric with a wrestling match; the combatants briefly pause in a double-scissors lock to applaud one of the speeches, which is interrupted by the announcement of a hockey or baseball score...
...committee and serves on its executive committee. Grindle, Coatsworth, and Jorge I. Domínguez are the three longest-serving members on the executive committee. “She’s thoughtful, she’s careful, she’s caring, she really is I think a splendid choice and I’m sure she’d be an excellent director,” said Domínguez, who is director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and has known Grindle for nearly three decades since she was a graduate student. Grindle?...
...generations. The Commonwealth is debt-free; Howard and Costello have cut government debt with the relish one only sees in workaholic couples who are under the spell of their bank manager's mortgage repayment simulator. So what is a 10-year-old, extremely fortunate administration doing to underwrite a splendid future...