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...husband—and he spent the last 27 years of his life in a mental hospital suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. “[H]is inchoate madness may have energized his antigay campaign,” Wright speculates.CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUEPaley’s name is conspicuously absent from Wright’s acknowledgments and his bibliography (although Wright does credit The Crimson several times in his book’s text.) “I felt flummoxed by the fact that [Paley] wouldn’t talk to me,” Wright said at the Coop...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Writing the Wrong | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...wiped off the map.” Following his talk, Dershowitz opened the floor to questions. Answering questions on U.S.-Iranian relations, political barriers to peace, and international law, Dershowitz again emphasized the benefit of rational discussion of the conflict, something he said is absent from many campuses. “Thank God Israel only has to make peace with the Palestinians, not with the professors,” he said in closing...

Author: By Cormac A. Early, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dershowitz Discusses Middle East | 11/1/2005 | See Source »

Feldman said secondary fields are an inferior option because though they appear on the transcript, they are absent on the diploma. He also said some secondary field studies will actually require students to take more courses than joint concentrations, citing the concentration combination of Physics with Mathematics or Astronomy...

Author: By William C. Marra and Sara E. Polsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faculty Discuss Concentrations | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

...increasingly they will be hit with cuts in government services and forced to pay higher taxes to cover the pensions of public employees, the kind they can only dream about. In three-fourths of the states, public pensions even come with annual cost-of-living increases, a fringe benefit absent from private pensions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Vs. Private: Where Pensions Are Golden | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...invested in those accounts. But to understand why the 401(k) is no substitute for a defined-benefit pension, look beneath that big number. Earlier this year the airwaves crackled with announcements that the value of the average 401(k) had climbed to $61,000 in 2004. Noticeably absent from many accounts was any reference to the median value, a more accurate indicator of the health of America's retirement system. That number was $17,909, meaning half held less, half more. Nearly 1 in 4 accounts had a balance of less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Broken Promise | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

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