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...issues detailed in the science policy report included a reversal of Harvard's practice of refusing to accept stock in lieu of licensing fees if the payment of such fees would be impractical--as in the case of small, start-up companies...
AMONG THE TOP 20 PAPERBACKS on USA Today's best-seller list is The Scarlet Letter--the Cliffs Notes version. Bibliophiles who purchase that slim volume in lieu of dozing over the original will get a much clearer view of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 tale of heroism and hypocrisy than those visiting the new movie adaptation. It's a lugubrious, often ludicrous, wallow...
...maybe it was the obituary notice for 80-year-old Seattle resident Thomas Fallihee. "In lieu of flowers," read the obit, "a yes vote on the new baseball stadium would be appreciated." Thus, Fallihee cast the ultimate in absentee ballots. Too bad so many other baseball fans are voting in absentia...
...report proposes allowing the University to accept shares of a firm's stock in lieu of licensing fees if the payment of such fees would be impractical...
...Nights romance, that is, had this story not played out last week--as fully modern Middle East politics, in deadly earnest and to spectacular international effect. For the Baghdad caliphate, read Saddam Hussein's Iraq; as the fugitives' vehicles, replace camels with Land Rovers and Mercedes sedans; and, in lieu of swords, understand the fleeing armorer's specialty as ballistic missiles, warheads and lethal toxins. Whatever the reasons for it, the overland escape into Jordan by Lieut. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid, his brother and their wives--both daughters of Saddam's--resounded as a signal blow to the Iraqi...