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...Letticie Pruett's family crossed America in a covered wagon and homesteaded in Oregon. By the late 1890s, after years of manual labor, Fong See owned the Curiosity Bizarre, which manufactured underwear for brothels. Letticie had run away from home and ended up in Sacramento. When no one would hire a single, uneducated woman, she drifted into Chinatown and the Curiosity Bizarre, where she begged Fong See for a job. He hired her, one thing led to another, and they decided to get married...
...said, starting in the 1960s, new strains of thought emerged from Princeton (which Leiter now ranks No. 1) that ran counter to Quine's views, and after Harvard failed to entice Princeton's leading theorists to come to Cambridge, it did not hire other faculty who supported these theories...
...Harvard's [inability] to hire [anti-Quinians] is a crucial explanation for Harvard's slippage," Leiter said. "There was this term 'to get Drebenized'-Dreben would beat into the students and faculty this deflationary view of philosophy...
...only way to go as a department is to find good junior people," he said. "You can have a great farm system, or you can hire a bunch of free agents. The general sense was that they were going to play the free agent market, and that doesn't work...
...lithe body he almost totals just minutes after she has moved in with her latest lover. Finally, there's the witness, El Chivo (Emilio Echevarria), who has been a college professor and a guerrilla leader, and is now a street person with a cynical sideline as a killer for hire...