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...political journalism, and Naipaul presents the causes of Africa’s problems with rare balance and simplicity; “At the height of the slave trade, African rulers seemed literally to have gone mad. To get hold of the guns and tobacco and brandy they craved, some chiefs betrayed and enslaved their own people. The desire to possess had spiraled out of control. Their successors behave no differently. Slavery, of course, is now illegal. But are there any moral distinctions to be drawn between a chief who, in order to satisfy his lust for brandy, sells...
...husband. “They would live,” he answers with thinly veiled frustration. “It would really upset them,” she counters. “They depend on me.” After graduating from Amherst, where she was the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine, Powell self-indulgently undergoes a turning-30 crisis. Ephron cuts Adams’ signature long auburn hair into an unattractive shag-mullet-bob hybrid and dresses her in the 20-something’s uniform of Anthropologie skirts, ripped Levi’s, and slip...
Lawrence M. Levine, the associate dean for information technology and chief information officer, will be leaving at the end of September to become the associate vice chancellor and chief information officer at the University of Colorado at Boulder, effective November...
...position, which will entail overseeing 165 employees and a $28 million budget, has consequently been held on an interim basis by current senior vice chancellor and chief financial officer Ric Porreca, according to CU-Boulder spokesman Bronson R. Hilliard...
...bribery conspiracy. They tell Hansen and Borja that $3 million in payoffs will be required to land a cleanup contract, divided evenly among Nuñez, Correa's office (including, said one of the men, the President's sister) and the plaintiffs. The Chevron complaint also fingered Correa's chief legal adviser, Alexis Mera, in the scheme. At a press conference on Sept. 1, Mera denied being involved and suggested that Chevron was simply trying to divert attention away from a case it knows it will probably lose. "The government won't succumb to these types of provocations," he said...