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...translation: fancy dinner), where the fellows of the College file out to High Table and give grace in Latin, presumably in gratitude for not having to eat the potato concoction served earlier at regular dinner. My own defining Cambridge moment took place at a private tutorial dinner at Corpus Christi College, when I was asked by the head tutor what I was reading in supervision. When I replied that I was in the middle of Dr. Faustus, she gestured to a portrait behind me, casually remarking, “Marlowe was a Corpus man, you know.” Awestruck...
Perhaps the biggest blunder the proactive environmentalist folks made was to coin the phrase "Save the Earth." It should be "Save the Human Race." We are egotistical to believe that humans can kill the earth. The earth will survive. It will be mankind that will not endure. CHRISTI E. GEORGE Fayetteville...
...year ago the events on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 found me alone a few thousand feet above Corpus Christi, Texas. I was about 20 minutes into a routine training flight in my T-45 Goshawk (the Navy’s jet trainer) when the radio traffic suddenly got very busy. Within a few short minutes, I was instructed to abort my flight, return to base and land as soon as possible. Once on the ground, as I shut down my jet, a member of the ground crew climbed up to the canopy and told me over the noise...
...gains of securities-law violators. From 1995 to 2001, the SEC recouped just $424 million, or 13.6% of the $3.1 billion owed in these cases, and for the last year its record dropped to 11.5%. The reason the SEC can't collect the cash? "Crooks spend it," says spokeswoman Christi Harlan. The good news is that under legislation passed in July, misled investors can also get civil penalties that once went into federal coffers. Of the $46.9 million ordered paid in civil penalties in the past year, nearly $45 million has been recovered...
Contrary to the beliefs of many U.S. observers, this resistance is not due to "Eurowimp" syndrome but to the strongly held belief that any conflict must be just. "I supported the war with Iraq over Kuwait," says Richard Harries, the Anglican Bishop of Oxford, who signed the Pax Christi petition submitted to Tony Blair. "I supported the war in Afghanistan. I supported the effort in Bosnia. War can be justified, but certain conditions have...