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When Britons started falling ill last year, some scientists concluded that that was just what happened. If cattle feed was indeed the indirect avenue of the recent infections, it could spell big trouble, since most Britons ate from a contaminated meat supply for at least 10 years. Just how many got bad beef is what the Nature paper tried to determine...
...exactly what Steven J. Mitby '99 did. A member of Peninsula's governing board, Mitby resigned because he vehemently disagreed with the content of the last issue. His name was blacked off the masthead before distribution. Padilla did not pay attention, and therefore must be ready to accept indirect responsibility for the actions of the organization. Those who cast their lot with a political movement can't pick and choose their fights after the fact; they must disagree before an action is taken, or else be willing to stand behind their comrades...
...survey of dormant, pre-war accounts opened by non-Swiss clients. They unearthed 775 of them, containing a total of only $32 million. Volcker expects the investigation to be "a detective job in part," he told TIME. "They are going to have to question people, look for indirect evidence of what happened to the accounts. Everybody's desire is to turn over as many stones as we can so the thing...
...October 22 New York Times article articulated, "Since those who remain silent or are not named by others may remain in the military," the government policy clearly has nothing to do with the inherent ability of a homosexual person to serve in the military successfully. This is an indirect rejection of the prior policy, which stated that all homosexuals could not serve in the military because of the innate liabilities of their sexual choices. The "don't ask, don'tell" policy acknowledges that homosexuality itself is not detrimental to the individual requirements of services...
...instance, that 30% of its membership is Republican. Yet this year, of the 255 congressional candidates being supported by the group, only one Republican is receiving any part of the N.E.A.'s $5.5 million in PAC money--not to mention the $20.7 million it will spend on such indirect political activities as lobbying and training members for campaign work. "If they're saying they're bipartisan, but their dollars are saying something else, I'd listen to their dollars," says John Berthoud, an analyst with the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a public policy research group...