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...initial reaction is that it's a terrible idea [to pay somebody to leave]," says James P. Butler, lecturer in physiology in the faculty of public health. "If I am to leave at age 67 or 68, I would much rather leave because someone told me the truth, that [my] research is not as good as it used to be. That would be straight and honest...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Large Incentives Tempt Faculty To Retire-Now | 10/9/1997 | See Source »

...addition, the Butler-Medearis Education Fund will raise money to endow a lectureship in his name, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Of Pediatrics Medearis Dies at 70 | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

...front page as I can before the old lady in front of me finishes paying for her Metamucil and prune juice. Inevitably, I move forward embarrassed for having been pulled in, dying to know if Princess Di really is having an affair with her ex-husband's butler. Even as I mock the papers whose lead stories deal with aliens almost as often as they write about us human types, I am aware of the effect of their conspiratorial, scandal-seeking message on my own assumptions and world views. Although I laugh at their incredulous reports, the pernicious element...

Author: By Talia Milgrom-elcott, | Title: Tabloids Degrade Journalism | 7/18/1997 | See Source »

...books are written ultimately by man. We have a simpler explanation: what men or women put into a book, other men or women can take out of a book--be it murky wordplays about the future ("assassin will assassinate"), Euclid's geometry, clues to Agatha Christie murders ("the butler did it") or a recipe book in any language ("add a pinch of salt"). BERNARD W. POWELL North Miami Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 7, 1997 | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...court, she also has much in common with Butler in that neither could ever be baited into talking about individual accomplishments. Feaster has always been much more concerned with being a star than advertising her stardom...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Women's Cagers' Charlie Horse | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

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