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Oscar Wilde was dying - and broke. the declining writer was taken in by the proprietor of the Hôtel d'Alsace in Paris' Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood, who tried to make him comfortable, plied him with Courvoisier and tolerated his snowballing bill. But Wilde still didn't spare his room's decor; he wryly observed that "my wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." The wallpaper won that battle - Wilde died a month later of meningitis, on Nov. 30, 1900 - but it didn...
Franklin cited the example of former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who drew criticism for his Jan. 2005 remarks on the underrepresentation of women on elite science faculties...
...Education Policy Committee (EPC), the group of faculty members charged with implementing secondary fields and reviewing departmental proposals, will look into the question of double-counting credits again early next fall, according to Assistant Dean of the College Stephanie H. Kenen...
...Another fired U.S. attorney, H. E. "Bud" Cummins of Arkansas, testified that he had e-mailed fellow ousted prosecutors last month, warning them of a threatening message conveyed by a senior Justice Department official. Cummins' e-mail, which was released publicly, quoted the Justice official as warning that if fired U.S. attorneys continued to talk to the media or volunteered to testify before Congress, the department "would feel forced to somehow pull their gloves off" and fight back. The DOJ denied the allegation...
...Some of those scientists have to become business leaders,” said the program’s faculty chair, H. Kent Bowen...