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...only ones with grave concerns about the termbill increase. In the Faculty Council’s final meeting of this academic year, it accepted Mahan’s fee hike—but only after he offered it as a two-part increase to take place over the next couple of years, an option not mentioned on the referendum. Granted, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 vouched for Mahan’s move, saying that it was unlikely that the Faculty Council would have agreed to such an excessive increase. It would seem, however, that...
Calling the abuse of Iraqi prisoners “a grave breach of responsibility,” the letter said that the executive branch’s allowance of questionable interrogation tactics in Iraq fosters “a culture facilitating disregard for the protections required to be accorded prisoners...
Even people who don't know much about art can tell you something about Amedeo Modigliani, the dissolute wild man of Montparnasse, wolfishly handsome, penniless, tubercular, drinking his way toward an early grave while sweeping up his superabundance of lovers, the last of them Jeanne Hebuterne, the art-school student who was carrying his child when he died and who would take her own life the next day. It's no surprise that there's a movie of his life on the way, starring Andy Garcia. The surprise is that it took so long...
...Cosby was trying to get at some of the same ideas as Rock. But Rock made his his serious point with humor; Cosby made his serious point using seriousness. Comics who get all grave can be a drag. Nobody really wants to hear Seinfeld's take on Halliburton unless it's accompanied by a laughtrack. Also, Cosby's comments deriding non-standard English seemed particularly off-base. Without non-traditional language, we wouldn't have Public Enemy rapping "Don't Believe The Hype," Diana Ross singing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," or Bob Marley declaring he had "So Much...
...husband and I want to leave all our assets to our kids, but we have grave concerns about the wife of one of them, and we don't want her to get her hands on any of the money. She and our son live in a community-property state, so we're afraid that anything he gets will become marital property. Is it possible to leave money in a trust exclusively to him? --Name Withheld, Western...