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...unassisted financial expenditure," these items would have "vanished to obscurity," he has claimed. But in mid 2000, when representatives of the local Bidjara people asked Walsh to repatriate his collection (as has become common practice among museums both in Australia and overseas), Walsh had some conditions. In a confidential letter obtained by Time, he offered to hand over the assemblages in exchange for a payment of $A100,000 to his rock art research facility, in recognition of his care of the remains, and a guarantee that the bones would be appropriately stored...
...glad to report that I am joined in this openness to private investment by Democrats like the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Sen. Bob Kerrey, and even the godfather of Social Security himself. In a 1935 letter to Congress, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, wrote of his hope for the “promises of private investment and private initiative to relieve the government in the immediate future of much of the burden it has assumed will be fulfilled.” Indeed, President Roosevelt unsuccessfully proposed adding “voluntary contributory annuities by which individual...
...This is a moment when the Legislature, through timely and thoughtful action, is helping making the Commonwealth the global center of the life sciences revolution,” he wrote in a letter to the Boston Globe. “Without an appropriate legislative environment, there is a real risk that major initiatives, such as Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute, which can attract talented students, scientists as well as industry, would be gravely compromised...
...than religious prominence and, indeed, beyond mankind's lower passions. On May 13, 1981, during his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square, shots rang out, and he toppled back, his white cassock stained red. Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish rightist and a murderer who had earlier written a letter threatening to kill John Paul, was trying to follow through. The bullet passed within millimeters of a major artery and within inches of several vital organs. "Mary, my mother," John Paul gasped as he collapsed. Doctors removed part of his intestine and, over the next few days, replaced almost...
...arbitrarily assign a tipping point in the American perception of the Pontiff, it might be 1994. The year began with plans for an ambitious tour, including a visit to the U.S. But the trip was postponed for health reasons, and in the interim, the Pope sent a pastoral letter to his bishops. The issue of female ordination, he declared, was an official nonissue. Not only could women not become priests, but there was to be "no more discussion" of the topic. Many laypeople were appalled that in the throes of a priest shortage, the Pope could so conclusively spurn...