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...cannot be compared with any other human endeavor. Civilians must accept the idea that those in command must be held to a high and strict standard. Since an officer's word must go unquestioned, lying under oath, as Flinn did, is a most grievous violation of trust. JOHN V. KAVANAGH Chevy Chase...
...SIMPSON TRIAL SHOWED THE WORLD that in the U.S., money is color-blind. ADELE M. KAVANAGH, Caracas...
...Success, Money and London Fields displayed his own ambition and avarice. He demanded and eventually got from the English publisher HarperCollins, U.K., an advance of nearly £500,000 (almost $800,000) for his latest novel. In the process, he tossed over his longtime British agent and friend, Pat Kavanagh, for a more aggressive U.S. representative, Andrew Wylie, called "the Jackal" by publishers and rivals because of his opportunistic business style...
...talented colleague's fat advances, if only out of self-interest: big, highly publicized deals raise the negotiating floor for everyone. But Amis' grab offended the sensibilities of some of his English literary colleagues. One was novelist Julian Barnes, who had a good reason: he's the husband of Kavanagh, Amis' former agent. Another was A.S. Byatt, whose novel Possession was published by Jonathan Cape, who also brought out Amis' previous novels. "I don't see why I should subsidize his greed," said Byatt, "simply because he has a divorce to pay for and has just had all his teeth...
...suggested. The NIH says the problem is probably a combination of as yet elusive genetic, environmental, neurological or biochemical factors. Diagnosis is difficult, since there is no laboratory test for the disorder, and the symptoms are vague and confusing. "Hyperactivity is in the eyes of the beholder," notes James Kavanagh, an NIH behavioral scientist...