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...grandfather of horror/fantasy/sci-fi recently died. Much like him, you have a second home, in Los Angeles, almost completely devoted to horror memorabilia. Did you know him well? He was a huge influence in my life. When I was a kid, I actually wrote him a letter asking him to adopt me. Unfortunately, my father found the letter before I could mail it and he gave me quite a belting. But Forrey and I saw each other many times over the years. I was lucky enough to be a speaker at his tribute about a month ago. My library home...
...Repeated attempts to adopt a uniform policy across the hospitals have fallen prey to the hospitals’ independence...
Studying Telugu. Exploring culinary tradition. Visiting Emily Dickinson’s home in western Massachusetts.These were among the program ideas suggested by a 2005 committee to fill a new three-week January term left open by a 2004 proposal to create one University-wide calendar, a schedule later adopted by Interim University President Derek Bok in 2007 for implementation in the 2009-2010 academic year.But four years later, these opportunities remain unrealized. Instead, the College’s first J-Term next winter will feature limited housing for select individuals, encouraging students to explore off-campus options...
...Dershowitz has urged Harvard to adopt a policy to ban any faculty from speaking at places that discriminate while representing the school in any official capacity...
...Friday morning, the government is expected to adopt a set of guidelines to fight the flu at the recently established Headquarters for Countermeasures Against Influenza A (H1N1) in Tokyo. The new guidelines will be a modification of an existing plan created to counter the more virulent H5N1 virus, known as avian...