Word: madison
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Henry Adams, who said m The Education of Henry Adams that Harvard "taught little, and that little ill," was 37 when he took up the study of Saxon legal codes and 42 when he first turned to writing the history of the Jefferson and Madison Administrations, and 49 when he laboriously began on Chinese. In his 50s, a tiny, why figure with a graying beard, the future master of Gothic architecture solemnly learned to ride a bicycle. -By Otto Friedrich. Reported...
...MADISON, Wisc--The Federal Bureau of Investigation has cancelled visits by its recruiters to the University of Wisconsin's law school following a complaint by the law school's student bar association that the FBI discriminates against homosexuals in its hiring practices...
...Commission for a New Lutheran Church, created by the agreement, will waste no time in nailing down the historic moment; it begins negotiations on the details later this month in Madison, Wis. The timetable calls for separate church votes on a union document in 1986 and a convention to approve the constitution of the new body in 1987. The resulting church, with 5.4 million members, would become the nation's fourth-largest Protestant denomination (behind the Southern Baptist Convention, United Methodist Church, and National Baptist Convention, U.S.A...
Skateboarding may be all the rage in places like trendy Southern California, but in Madison, Wis., it is definitely on the outs. Two recent accidents, one when an inebriated skateboarder sailed through a shopping-mall store window at 1:30 a.m., have the Madison police department and some city council members up in arms. Various punitive and restrictive measures are under consideration, including a proposal that would subject skateboarders who are weaving suspiciously to a Breathalyzer test, the same one given to Wisconsin's automobile drivers. In Madison, it seems, some stiff fines may soon await stiff skateboarders. While...
...male employee suing a female supervisor on the same grounds is like the proverbial man biting the proverbial dog. David Huebschen, 33, an employee of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, is apparently the first male to win such a suit. Last week a federal jury in Madison said that he is due $196,500 in damages, probably the largest amount ever awarded an individual in a sexual harassment case. The sum is to be paid by the state on behalf of Huebschen's former superior, Jacquelyn Rader, 37, and Rader's boss, Bernard Stumbras...