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Knowles called the report "careful and thoughtful" in March, before the Corporation decided to adopt a soft cap on contributions to post-retirement health care, but not to rescind a one percent reduction in pension contributions...
...conflict early in his career, perhaps in college or on the job, and probably with someone involved in computer science. As a result, speculates Rustigan, "he probably disconnected himself and withdrew and started brooding," like most serial killers. His feelings about computers may have led the Unabomber to adopt the initials FC-they could stand for "f------ computers," say investigators-which he has etched into parts of most of his bombs and which were scrawled on Sacramento State University buildings just before the 1993 attacks...
...bond to one another and lose contact with other people who hold different opinions. The isolation works to reinforce their views, which in turn gives them new purpose. Individuals may even begin unconsciously to compete with each other to make the strongest statements. Nonetheless, many Americans with paranoid fantasies adopt a harmless defensive posture-perhaps stockpiling food, cash and weapons to guard against future calamity...
When the Court gives Specter a good excuse to adopt what he sees as a politically expedient position, the Supreme Court lives up to its name. But when standing by the Court leads Specter into something problematic (Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson), it is no longer supreme, and Diana Ross heads straight out the door. The Court is reduced to nothing more to him than nine men and women with cool robes...
...council president is elected only by hisfellow council members and not by a generalcampus-wide election. Last week Liston urged thecouncil to adopt popular elections for officers inorder to give them credibility with students andadministrators...