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...temporary replacement for former Law School Dean Elena Kagan, who stepped down after being confirmed as U.S. Solicitor General, Jackson took an unusually active role in shaping the Law School during his brief three month deanship. Kagan departed in March without making any budgetary announcements to the Law School community, and due to the tight budget approval timeline, the decision fell to Jackson to move forward with involuntary workforce cuts...
...expressed regret for his crime. "Apologizing and saying I'm sorry is not enough," he said. "I feel terrible," he continued, adding that he was tormented every day by the "pain and suffering" he caused his victims. The only time Madoff turned to the victims was for a brief five-second period during his statement, as he offered them a direct apology. Victims later said this brief gesture meant nothing to them. Outside the courthouse hundreds of people, including many victims and the news media, waited to hear the sentence. When news came just before midday, applause broke...
...tweets. This means that they were not engaged in the discussion at the table and that this new communication tool was actually distracting from rather than enhancing the discussions at the forum. It can easily be argued that the ideas lost from the discussion at hand far outweighed the brief ones gained via Twitter. Aside from being a new venue to reinforce our sadly shortened attention spans, Twitter is a narcissist's dream of one-way communication. I, for one, will never care what Shaq is doing or thinking about anything. I don't care what anyone had for breakfast...
Fleur Cowles, 101, edited Flair, an innovative magazine that pioneered the use of pop-ups and cutouts during its brief one-year run. A socialite, a presidential envoy and an artist, Cowles was known as "America's Million Dollar Girl" and won international honors for her paintings...
...tool, but only in recent days has the institution emerged as a focus of their ire. State news broadcasts have largely overlooked the enormous street protests of recent days, including the June 16 protests that stretched across five miles of Tehran. When the news does make mention, it shows brief scenes of what presenters describe as "hooligans" rioting. Street interviews either highlight those who back Ahmadinejad, or young people who claim to be recanting their support for Mir-Hossein Mousavi in light of recent developments. (Read a story about how to report in Tehran when you're banned...