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...both author and central character of his "somewhat fictionalized" travelogue, Dyer can likewise choose an identity. But instead of striking a heroic pose, he portrays himself as a hapless failure, someone who is always wishing to do something?hop a freight train, ask a woman out, adopt a child in Goa?but never follows through. "I have an idea for a self-help book," he tells an alluring beauty on the beach, "Yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it." To which she responds, "But you can't be bothered to write it, right...
...resulted in severe disfigurement, severe physical disability or death, says Feinstein, the cap would be the greater of $2 million or $50,000 times the number of years of life expectancy. The 25 states that have laws limiting damages could keep their caps if they did not want to adopt the Federal Government...
...spring of 1978, it took then-Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky three months’ worth of heated meetings to get the Faculty to adopt the Core curriculum...
...advised students to adopt a version of the Golden Rule as a guiding mantra...
Mendelsohn, who proposed that the Faculty adopt its own a statement on academic freedom, said that he was asked to wait for University President Lawrence H. Summers to issue a statement...