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Although Foster is a lecturer in the Folklore and Mythology department, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) rules dictate that any non-tenured instructor may teach at the College for a maximum of eight years. A loophole to this rule allows for lecturers with certain administrative positions to retain lecturer status indefinitely, according to Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Julie Buckler...
...DIED. JOHN COWPERTHWAITE, 90, Hong Kong's hard-nosed financial secretary from 1961-1971; in St. Andrews, Scotland. A disciple of 18th century economist Adam Smith, Cowperthwaite reduced the government's role in the economic affairs of the then-British colony, eliminating tariffs, lowering income tax to a maximum of 15% and slashing bureaucratic red tape. Hong Kong flourished under this policy of what he called "positive non-intervention," leading economist Milton Friedman to hail him as the embodiment of laissez-faire economics. "I did very little," Cowperthwaite said of his part in Hong Kong's prosperity...
...skaters, the new rules mean rethinking every edge they carve on the ice to impress the judges. Gone is the punitive 6.0 system, in which the athletes start with the maximum score of perfection and lose points for mistakes and poorly executed skills or because the French judge doesn't like magenta. In its place is a cumulative system in which skaters begin with a blank slate and accumulate points, depending on the elements they complete...
...standards of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the suicide bombing in Ramadi on Jan. 5 was stunning for its audacity. The bomber had blended into the ranks of Iraqi police recruits outside the Ramadi Glass and Ceramics Works before blowing up his explosive vest, loaded with ball bearings for maximum devastation. The blast killed two U.S. service members and more than 70 Iraqi police recruits--but it also turned out to be a deadly miscalculation by the jihadis and their leader, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Most of the victims were local Sunnis, and they were joining the police force under...
...prison that was designed to hold 600 inmates was holding 1,800,” Wallen said. “The prisoners were in 8.5 by 5.5 by 11 foot cells, and there were a minimum of four and a maximum of nine people in each one. The inmates were locked down in their cells at 3 p.m. each day and not released until 9 a.m. the next morning...