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...shed new light on the educational possibilities of the report, none of these things—Dewey, the Red Book, or professorial writings—were consciously used in the drafting of the report. Instead, the ideas came from the committee itself.“We came quickly to agreement on the basic philosophy and rationale in our very first meeting early in the summer,” Ford Professor of Human Evolution David Pilbeam writes in an e-mail, “with no mention of the [Red Book] or educational philosophies.”Whether the report...
...Skilling's sentencing, meanwhile, brought some cause for celebration for Enron victims, and not just because of the prospect of him behind bars for a long, long time. A criminal forfeiture and restitution agreement was announced the same day - about $45 million will be dispersed by U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon to victims in pending civil lawsuits. Judge Sim Lake originally ordered a $5 million fine to be paid to the U.S. Government, but then changed his mind. "No fine - it will all go to the victims," he said. Seattle attorney Lynn Sarko, who represents employees in Enron retirement fund...
Grammy winner KEITH URBAN checked into rehab for alcohol abuse last week with wife NICOLE KIDMAN by his side. Her presence is noteworthy because in the run-up to the megacouple's wedding in June, there was much speculation about whether they had signed a prenuptial agreement specifying that Urban--an admitted cocaine user who went into rehab in 1998--would get nada if he fell off the wagon. "One can never let one's guard down on recovery, and I'm afraid that I have," the country singer said in a written statement last week. "I deeply regret...
...Bordeaux. The Council is also quietly encouraging the 57 different Bordeaux appellations to consolidate. Five big areas - the Côtes de Blaye, Côtes de Bourg, Côtes de Castillon, Côtes de Francs and Côtes de Bordeaux - are now close to an agreement to combine into one single expanded Côtes de Bordeaux. The measures only go so far: they still leave 17,000 different Bordeaux wine labels, and only a few hundred producers to date have signed up for the scheme to be paid to get out of the business altogether...
...complete, inhibiting it from hosting all of the MIAA Super Bowl games. Night games cannot be played on the stadium’s turf because new field lights have yet to be installed, according to Gaines. “We don’t have a clean agreement yet, we’re still dealing with a couple of issues,” he said, The agreement is a community service effort on the part of the University, said Chuck V. Sullivan, Harvard’s director of athletic communications. “Since the stadium has been resurfaced, we?...