Stumbling and struggling to breathe as the poison in his veins takes hold, his leave-taking wrings the heart, with his last words sounding like a benediction from the grave.
She included musings on her own leave-taking at the school where she has worked as a teacher, department chair and, for the past seven years, principal.
These policies are independent of leave-taking, meaning that assistant professors can continue to work while gaining the extra time on their tenure clocks.