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...national interest, Campbell said. He credited Simmons for taking the position that “any university worth its salt would, in fact, seek to find out what the truth of this is”—unlike Harvard, which, Campbell said, “decided to lay low and hoped it would blow over.” “Universities are not sausage factories,” Campbell said. “We profess to be particular kinds of institutions. We profess to be truth-seeking. We profess to be conservators of humanity’s past...
...paramedics' report said they could barely get into the apartment. Piles of papers and garbage had to be moved to get a stretcher in. Every surface of the place was overwhelmed with trash and mounds of ... stuff. On the only small clearing on the kitchen table lay a half-eaten sandwich. It was almost Sandy's last meal...
...theology at home, the Vatican always seems to tell us - because it inevitably invites the laity to come to its own informed and conscientious conclusions about when human life begins or whether women should be priests. Vatican II, the modernizing church council of the 1960s, emboldened that lay assertiveness among U.S. Catholics as never before; the pedophile tragedy has made the laity's self-reliant spirit irradicable...
...month of severance pay for every year of employment. "In a case where an export market is going down, if you want to reduce your number of workers, then you face a lot of problems," says Stanley Lau, vice chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries. To lay off people, "you need to pay a huge amount in compensation." Nor is there any relief from surging raw-materials costs. And slowly but surely, the renminbi, China's currency, continues to strengthen--it's now 12% higher against the U.S. dollar than it was 18 months ago--making China...
When the Viscountess Felicity Fabreigh opened her eyes the following morning, she was still in deshabille. She lay there awhile on the floor, watching the specks of dust floating in the sunlight that streamed through the casement. The morning caressed her stomach and thighs, which, as they usually did, looked perfect. Her head ached. She could not form a coherent thought.But with consciousness came recollection, and the images of the night just past swarmed to confront her: the empty decanter of brandy, her dead turtle Orlando, and, looming above all else, he who had wronged her once again. She could...