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...February sales were surprisingly good" considering the snowstorms that blasted across the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic region, says Richard Jaffe, a managing director at Stifel Nicolaus & Co. "I think things are improving, but I don't think we're out of the woods...
...addition of HKS courses, which act as a “supplement to our direct elective offerings,” permits concentrators to practice greater flexibility in their elective choices, beyond the options offered within the economics department, according to Jeffrey Miron, director of undergraduate studies and senior lecturer in economics...
...currently the director of Princeton’s creative writing department, was named one of The New Yorker’s 20 best novelists under the age of 40 in 1999. He also received the 1995 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for his first novel “Native Speaker...
...triumphant return to his Bavarian hometown of Marktl am Inn four years ago - his first since becoming Pontiff - was made all the more poignant by the presence of his older brother, Georg Ratzinger. Five decades after they'd entered seminary together, the new Pontiff and the retired church-choir director stepped with the same soft gait and wavy white hair into the town's tiny riverside chapel. Praying silently side by side, they might just as well have been an aging pair of humble village priests...
...however, claim Ratzinger must have known more at the time. Franz Wittenbrink, a former singer who lived at the Regensburg boarding school connected with the choir from 1958 to 1967, tells TIME it was "unimaginable" that Ratzinger hadn't heard about cases of sexual abuse during his time as director. Wittenbrink alleges that there was a "widespread system of sadistic punishments and sexual lust" at the school and in the choir. He says he was physically abused by young men in training to become priests at the school who would routinely smack him on the bottom with their hands...