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...Across the Borderline breaks similar ground, only the raw material it uses is not myth. Nelson's version of the title track is a characteristic redrafting: a song about illegal refugees widens into a memorable evocation of rootlessness, helplessness and drift. Written by Ry Cooder, John Hiatt and James Dickinson for a film sound track, Across the Borderline has become a contemporary classic, sung by, among others, Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. But no one has caught so well as Nelson the melancholy and desperation at the heart of the song, or conveyed it with such glancing delicacy...
...situation by officials from both inside and outside the Business School. The review, which consisted of informal interviews with Epstein and financial experts, involved several officials, including University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr., Senior Associate Dean Robert H. Hayes, Assistant Dean of Educational Affairs Deborah N. Mauger and Dickinson Professor of Accounting Robert S. Kaplan, the head of Epstein's department...
...existence of a legal suit does not disqualify a person from being a faculty member. If that were the case, a lot of us couldn't teach here.' Robert S. Kaplan Dickinson professor of accounting Harvard Business School
...Wright Dickinson, 32, fourth-generation cattleman, lean as a post, had one troubled eye on the weather reports of storms tumbling over his family's land along the Green River in Wyoming and Colorado, the other on news accounts of plans to raise the $1.86 grazing fee (a cow and her calf for a month) to $3 or maybe $5 or even $10. Away from the floodlit Capitol dome, he said quietly, "We are standing on the edge of an abyss. It's scary. Unless we can find some basis for a rational discussion, we could lose...
...Colorado and Utah written on his face, was not as restrained. "If that fee goes up to $2 or $3 we are broke, out of business," he said with the sweep of a giant, scarred hand. By the weekend, Theos was back out in his sheep camps and Dickinson was in a wind chill near zero with his two sisters, brother and parents, all getting ready for the new calves that will begin arriving in a couple of weeks. "That's one of the problems," he said. "We've got to be here, and our future is being debated there...