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...Politburo that Sakharov "appears to have a good head and seems to use it for the good of the country." The exile could return to Moscow. At the time of his death from a heart attack in 1989, he was a member of the Congress of People's Deputies, intent on reforming the Soviet constitution. What Sakharov might have conceived and discovered "if not for his work on thermonuclear weapons and human rights" is a reasonable but fundamentally meaningless question, concludes Lourie. "He created himself through his choices," he writes, and "like everyone else, was formed by a fate...
...this,” Yasin says. He has been helped, he adds later, by an “incredible amount of support” from people both inside and outside Harvard, even from those who do not usually weigh in on these kinds of political issues (though his original intent, he has noted before, was to have a nonpolitical speech...
Frisch said her findings should be a warning for women intent on staying as thin as possible...
...Core Curriculum, while noble in intent, does not work. It forces students to take bloated, watered-down lecture courses instead of providing a true introduction to diverse fields and it prevents students from pursuing their genuine academic interests...
...agreement the employees signed specifically waived “any claim for age or other types of discrimination prohibited by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.” So let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that Allstate did have a discriminatory intent when it fired the 6,400 workers. Or, better yet, suppose that it had chosen to discriminate by firing a group of 6,400 workers, 90 percent of whom were African-American. Could it stop paying benefits and rehire them all on the condition that they wouldn?...