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...White House doesn't deny that staff members violated record-keeping procedures: instead of pleading innocence, they're pleading indolence. Says an official: "Was there some degree of laziness in overusing one account? Sure...
...Silverman said. Purdy was convicted of running a house of prostitution and deriving earnings from a prostitute on February 23. His sentencing hearing was initially scheduled for March 13, but the proceedings were postponed until April 5 because the prosecutor was out of her office on account of her marriage and honeymoon. In a written statement to the court, Silverman petitioned for the assignment of a different attorney to represent Purdy during his appeal because Committee for Public Counsel Services regulations do not allow trial counsel to continue on as appellate counsel. However, Silverman will continue to act as Purdy?...
...well known that a wide range of opinion obtains on this subject. That the Undergraduate Council could suggest that student opinion and a decision of the Governing Boards serve to settle this matter in favor of the Council’s own proposal fails to take into account that faculty have fully as much at stake in the calendar discussions as do students. There are some, and I count myself among them, who think that our calendar with its January examinations actually poses some pedagogical advantages. The fact that our calendar does not conform to those found in other places...
...Undergraduate Council, the matter of calendar reform should await another academic year, a new Dean of the Faculty and President, and a period of scrutiny and discussion. Anything less that this does violence to the way deliberative bodies deliberate. The Governing Boards would be well advised to take into account the formal views of the faculty before they endorse the proposal that has been sent to them by the Undergraduate Council. If change is to come, let it come as a result of honoring a process that takes the faculty and its views seriously. Plebiscites and diktats...
...like Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, the satirist, who struggled with depression, repeatedly explored the harmful effects of industry on human beings' collective morality. After laboring in obscurity for decades, he shot to global fame in 1969 with Slaughterhouse-Five, a fictionalized account of his experiences as a POW and "corpse miner" in Dresden after the Allies bombed the city in 1945--a book he said took 25 years to complete. At times dismissed as too accessible, Vonnegut once said his goal was to "poison [readers'] minds with humanity." Through his protagonist Eliot...