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...Ceccaldi get sufficiently cheesed off to launch her assault on Houellebecq's contemptuous and impudently unflappable mystique? In large part because Houellebecq's books generally cast mother figures as dysfunctional, negligent, or psychologically twisted, and he has described his own in just such terms. In his 1998 success The Elementary Particles (published under the title of Atomized in the U.K.), for example, Houellebecq portrays his mother as so self-centered and infatuated with her own rootless, irresponsible hippie credo that she abandoned him in order to be able to travel and explore new experiences at will. Similarly...
Hadfield worked with University of Toronto professors Peter A. Singer and Abdallah S. Daar of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health to launch the project...
...number of police,” Healy said. The city will hire four new police officers, who will be trained to work with weapons-detecting dogs, in accordance with the Council’s emphasis on public safety. Healy also praised the city’s decision to launch a transitional jobs program, which will help train and employ “disengaged” adults. The budget has increased largely because of costs related to city employees, including an annual salary increase and greater insurance and pension costs, according to an introduction Healy submitted with the proposed budget...
...team emerged from anonymity in April to launch a sequel, Snatchbuckler's Second Chance. It's filmed in a fictional, virtual world called Peopleburg.com Snatchbuckler, Donnie's erstwhile partner in the online game World of Warcraft, has gone there to shake off his Internet addiction. The video debuted on MyDamnChannel.com in late April, and it looks pretty cool. But I miss Donnie and wish I could Photoshop him back into my life...
...links to slavery in the past should be an inquiry that is not pushed by an institutional mandate. It should be kept in mind that Harvard as an institution was not slaveholding, but that individuals connected to Harvard were. Harvard should not force or even pay researchers to launch a University investigation, because this is not an instance of institutional redress. Yet this type of investigation by students and their professors is laudable for its “bottom-up” approach. Beckert said, “We do have a responsibility to be examining our history completely...