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...vacancy, and was sworn in as a city councillor on March 3.THE PROSPECT OF RE-ELECTIONThere is little down time for the new councillor, for Ward and his advisors have already begun planning for their next campaign in November.“After the election, there is [usually] a year-long period in which to work out a relationship with the other councillors, [but Ward] doesn’t have that advantage,” Farrar said. “Everyone is trying to carve out their territory and area of focus, so he doesn’t have...
Scholars are selected through a year-long process in which they are nominated by academics and scholars in the field, who are asked to select “the most creative and gifted minds,” according to Rosenfield...
...After a year-long stint at a European investment bank and another at Enron, Iris M. Mack signed on to be a quantitative analyst for Harvard Management Company in early 2002, hoping, she says, to find job security and distance from the risky trading and accounting practices that forced her last employer into bankruptcy in the company charged with managing Harvard’s endowment...
...really has changed. More than a year into the Great Recession, we still aren't sure if there's a bottom in sight, and six months after the financial system began imploding, it's still iffy. The party is finally, definitely over. And the present decade, which we've never even agreed what to call - the 2000s? the aughts? - has acquired its permanent character as a historical pivot defined by the nightmares of 9/11 and the Panic of 2008-09. Those of us old enough to remember life before the 26-year-long spree began will probably spend the rest...
...seemed caught in a cul-de-sac, almost compulsively reviving styles and remixing the greatest hits of the past. (Think: post-Modern architecture, pop music based on sampling, '60s-style shift dresses, pseudo-midcentury home décor.) Since we're now finished with a 25- or 30-year-long era in both politics and economics, maybe a new cultural epoch will emerge as well. Maybe more of the next big things will be actually, thrillingly...