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Riaz Siddiqi, a senior managing director at Denham, said the firm invested in RED because of Casten’s life-long commitment to his field and his ability to win over industrial purchasers...
...Every institution, and especially one that fosters such life-long connections as a university, needs tradition. The memory of the past and the examples of those gone before serve as the social glue that tie together often disparate elements of a community and direct them toward a common purpose. Harvard’s commitment to excellence or pursuit of truth—one can claim—should be that glue, and not a nostalgic deifying of the past. But past experience speaks more loudly than promises for the future: A tradition of excellence, by virtue of its longevity, rightly...
...relief for 16,000 mentally disabled children and adults in Serbia's orphanages and medical institutions, an international human rights group revealed on Wednesday. A study by the U.S.-based Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) found that Serbia's treatment of its disabled citizens includes segregation, inhumane practices, and life-long detention in deplorable conditions. The group deemed the plight of Serbia's institutionalized disabled as torture, rather than treatment...
...life: Flying and spells for readers of Harry Potter, hot and easy women for readers of Maxim, and, for me, a good meal. This summer I got my first taste of financial independence—and of being broke. I realized that exorbitant meat prices meant that I was going to become a de facto vegetarian, a horrible fate for someone whose truck back home bore the bumper sticker, “I didn’t claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat a salad.” I had developed a life-long...
...last name, insisted that Diana "got a raw deal." Another woman lamented her "appalling treatment from day one of her marriage." Laminated newspaper stories smearing Prince Charles were pinned to the gates. One banner, screaming "LONG LIVE THE QUEEN/DIANA FOREVER," was far less polite about Charles and Camilla, Charles' life-long love who is now his wife. The reason a decade hasn't dimmed Diana's memory, said a third woman, "is that she epitomized every facet of human frailty, and reached out in a very hostile world...