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Beth's husband Pat (Treat Williams) and remaining son Vincent (Cory Buck at seven, Jonathan Jackson at 16) dare to pretend that life goes on. But Beth makes a career of her guilt and grief; she builds a mausoleum for her lost child and moves into it. She sleeps all day and leaves the tending of her infant daughter to the two males in the house. In a nice vignette, young Vincent comes home, sees that his sister is being ignored, picks up her rattles and puts them in the playpen, then walks through the foyer, knocking over a vase...
...very least, it will make Harvard mid-level administrators think twice about passing the buck...the next time it happens, some dean will make an effort to follow through, if only to save themselves from being harassed by someone higher up on the chain...
...Indeed, rather than dwell on conspiracy, the verdict simply followed the bureacratic chain of command. The jury dimissed allegations that Fabius had delayed compulsory blood screening so as to favor a blood test manufactured by French company, and focused on where the buck stopped -- Herv?'s failure to stop the distribution of untreated blood supplies when their connection to AIDS was known. Perhaps the trial's most important legacy will be that the traditional French deference to elites has been shaken a bit, says Crumley. "This case has set a precedent to make people more willing to take politicians...
...call the set of receptors that recognize its odor its code," Buck said. "If you change the concentration of the odor, you can also get a change in its code...
...Buck plans to follow the pathway of sensory information further into the brain. "We've looked so far at the nose and the bulb," she said. "We want to go into the cortex...