Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says, "The shock of recognition had passed through my body like a powerful current. Just for a moment I had met my sort, another of my species." The species connection is so strong that the father and the fiancee begin an affair that lasts until the night before Anna's wedding to Martyn. Their romantic liason ends when Martyn discovers them in mid-bondage and jumps to his death on the marble floor of the lobby of Anna's apartment building...
...secrecy backfired. Almost every step of the process was reported in the Crimson. And in the end, The Crimson was the first to report that Rudenstine would likely be the next president, two days before the Board of Overseers was supposed to have learned of the decision. The whole affair must have been somewhat embarassing for Harvard's top dogs, who were forced to play the game by rules that were not their...
...those who were following the committee-Crimson game of cat and mouse, the whole affair must have seemed a little silly. And that is a shame. Because Harvard made the right choice in picking Neil Rudenstine. But it made the right choice despite, and not because of, its secrecy...
...story did not end there. Seized on by some tenacious watchdogs at the National Institutes of Health, the case became a symbol of the fallibility and arrogance of modern science -- and of government attempts to police science. The affair reached a critical point last week when a preliminary NIH report of the latest investigation was leaked to the press. That draft asserts % that Imanishi-Kari faked her results and that Baltimore failed to take the allegation seriously enough...
...Birmingham affair is the third major terrorism case in 1 1/2 years in which evidence compiled by authorities has been found wanting. Now the system that locked the six men up is itself on trial. "It must never happen again," Home Secretary Kenneth Baker declared as he announced the formation of a Royal Commission to examine the country's criminal-justice system, in particular the appeals process, which had earlier failed the Birmingham...