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ASSOCIATE Professor Bert Vaux, best known on campus as professor of Linguistics 80, "Dialects of English," teaches teaches phonology and field methods. But his real interest, he says, is endangered languages, such as Abxaz, Tigrinya, and Homshetsma, some of which are spoken by only one tribe or even one person and are in danger of dying out. But even with all of the classes he teaches, he says his work with endangered languages has to be done on the side, cautioning, "Once you choose a profession, you'll probably have to confine what you enjoy to the weekends...
...Each member of the band has a carnivorous nickname. Ribeye is a lawyer for the House of Representatives. Cubesteak is a physics professor at George Mason University, focusing on chaos theory. Buttersteak is an insanely wealthy computer programmer. Bert Vaux is Buttsteak...
What spooks the nets is that PVRs could, theoretically, strip out their ads and insert ads of their own, and ultimately upset the entire system of ad-based TV. "These boxes are not a simple piece of consumer electronics, like a VCR," says Bert Carp, attorney for the coalition...
Katzenberg's lawyer, Bert Fields, counsel to such stars as Dustin Hoffman and Elle MacPherson, was drilling Eisner about comments made to Tony Schwartz, co-author of his autobiography. "Did you tell Schwartz, 'I think I hate the little midget'?" Eisner's response was testy. "If you pursue this line of questioning, you will put in the public record something that should not...I really didn't mean it." Eisner said he was angry, yes, but "I did not hate Jeffrey Katzenberg. I still do not hate Jeffrey Katzenberg." Fields persisted. "Didn't you say you were not going...
...parents use vouchers in suburban public schools. Ohio's voucher law was written to allow vouchers to be used in the suburban schools, but only in those that agreed to take them. Bert Holt, director of Cleveland's voucher program, had high hopes when she made the rounds of suburban school districts to persuade them to sign up. But not one suburb agreed to accept students from the city's heavily poor and minority student population. Result: 80% of Cleveland's vouchers are being used in religious schools...