Word: california
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...junior Faculty I have seen come and go, on the other hand, make up a very long list. Now, some of the people who have meant the most to me both personally and professionally are scattered quite literally across the country, from New York to Michigan, Ohio and California. Not all of them were denied tenure; some of them wished to leave before undergoing what appeared, and still appears, to be a futile process. Neither the administration nor individual department Faculty have any incentive to change this situation. Every year, another thousand or so of the best and brightest first...
...hadn't yet made it to the "level beyond human." Six weeks later, fellow "students" Chuck Humphrey and Wayne ("Nick") Cooke attempted to complete their course work in the approved manner--by swallowing a combination of alcohol and phenobarbital and tying plastic bags over their heads--in a Southern California motel room. Cooke made it to the next level; Humphrey didn't. Fortunately, he had work...
...sure, Holden and Galluccio aren't the first American gay partners to adopt jointly. Judges in other states, including California, have quietly allowed such adoptions in the past, according to the A.C.L.U.'s Michael Adams, the point man on the New Jersey case. And according to a 1996 report by the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay legal-rights group, courts in 21 states have approved so-called second-parent adoptions, or adoptions by the partners of individuals who have given birth to or who have already adopted a child. (This was the lengthy double-adoption procedure that...
DIED. NICOLETTE LARSON, 45, pop songstress who put the country in Neil Young's California rock, taking his Lotta Love to the Top 10 in the 1970s; of cerebral edema; in Los Angeles...
DIED. LILLIAN DISNEY, 98, Walt Disney's benevolent widow, who helped found the California Institute of the Arts; in Los Angeles. Disney coined the moniker Mickey Mouse, wisely persuading her husband to give up his choice: Mortimer...