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Many things could delay the renovation--freak accidents, unforeseen glitches, labor strikes, shoddy workmanship. Harvard Real Estate and College officials know, though, that if a major delay does occur, they will most likely end up having to explain it to the national media, as well as to parents and alumni...
...explain the rash of faked complaints and scams in the Pepsi scare? Such bogus reports often break out after an initial believable case is given wide publicity. Sometimes it's a simple craving for attention or a prank. A 21-year-old man arrested last week in Branson, Missouri, admitted that he'd lied about finding a hypodermic needle in a Pepsi can "to see what the police department would do." A 62-year-old California woman confessed to police that she fabricated a similar story as a joke on her daughter...
None of the images explain why a not-very-exceptional fellow ascended to the second highest office in the nation. Thomas Mehl, the museum's curator -- who is actually a graduate student at Eastern Illinois University ("I'll be getting six credits for this," he says) -- notes shyly that the museum is history. "Sure, this isn't the Revolution or the Civil War. But it's still history. He has a story to tell. Hell, I have a story to tell. You have a story to tell." It's a modest ode to a common man -- a man lifted...
...else to explain the surprising success of The Real Anita Hill: The Untold Story, which maintains that Hill's claims of sexual harassment were just an escalating series of brazen falsehoods? Published in April, the book gradually garnered positive reviews, is now into its sixth printing and is lodged in third place on the New York Times best-seller list. Brock, who works ; for the conservative magazine American Spectator, depicts Hill as a left-wing feminist, a woman of "radical views and inflamed sensitivities," who is also a working-world bumbler pushed by affirmative action into jobs she was unequipped...
...another reminder that many French citizens collaborated enthusiastically with their Nazi invaders during World War II. Christian Didier, a sometime author who was born during the war, pumped four bullets into Rene Bousquet, a man he described as a "piece of garbage," then summoned TV reporters to explain the deed. Bousquet, 84, a successful former banker, had served as a high-ranking police official in the Nazi-friendly Vichy government and had been accused of deporting thousands of Jewish children to German concentration camps...