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...appreciated the Viewpoint column on the Enron verdicts by the company's whistle-blower, Sherron Watkins [June 5]. I agree with her argument that humility is a basic ingredient of a spiritual life. No matter how often he invokes Scripture, Enron's founder, Ken Lay, will never learn that stealing is wrong until he finds some of that elusive characteristic. But there is hope: some people learn that valuable lesson in prison. GARY ROE Santa Cruz, Calif...
...fees. Nor have those copyright protectors authorized ROMS or FAIR to collect payments. The Russians "set up this bogus licensing scheme," says Lauri Rechardt, litigation director for the IFPI, "and quite clearly it's not a problem for the authorities." Counters ROMS general manager Oleg Nezus: "Foreign organizations that lay claims about pirate use...are either adventurists or idiots." (E-mails to Mediaservices were not returned...
Lehrer did not lay out a specific proposal for instituting universal service—”I’m a journalist, not a proposalist,” he said—but instead asked broad questions he hoped would frame a discussion on the topic...
When Daniel L. Hartl was an undergraduate, one of his professors broke his leg and lay in traction for the rest of the semester. Guest lecturers finished the class, and Hartl calls it one of the best courses of his college experience.Now the Higgins professor of biology, Hartl doesn’t need to break a leg for his students to have a team-taught experience. He is one of four professors of the new Life Sciences 1b, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution.” Along with its 1a counterpart...
...Harvard and MIT petitioned for divestment from companies doing business with Israel until the country ended its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, Summers called the petition’s signers “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” His conviction lay not in any evidence of the petitioners’ personal anti-Semitism, or of their inaction against racism in Sudan and South Africa, or in any disproof that Israel was committing illegal acts of occupation or violence against its indigenous people—all with extraordinary financial, military, and diplomatic...