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Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin '53, the chair of the FAS IT Committee, says the report was not meant to address the financial issues...
...posted abroad with diplomatic cover, a large house, car and private schools for his three children went with the job. When he was moved back to the U.S. in 1994, the expatriate good life disappeared. That same year he divorced his wife and won custody of his children. That meant a property settlement, plus alimony payments that claimed a fourth of his take-home...
...right, there can be a fine line, sometimes, between sex and the abuse of it. The officer who comments on his subordinates' good looks may be simply clueless and in need of retraining. The military couple who defy regulations to fraternize off base may be, for all we know, meant for each other. But much of the activity under discussion has nothing ambiguous about it, and certainly nothing fine. We're talking about having one's clothes ripped off and being passed from pawing hand to pawing hand (Tailhook, 1991). About being raped and then told by one's assailant...
...call, she learned that her just published first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, had been chosen as the initial recommendation of Oprah's Book Club, a new once-a-month feature on America's most popular syndicated talk show. Mitchard had no idea what this news meant: "I was so surprised that it really was Oprah, because there is not much of a tradition of writers on talk shows. Even as a writer I wouldn't want to hear myself talk about fiction for an hour...
Here is what the news meant: Mitchard's novel, an account of the sudden disappearance of a three-year-old child, sold about 100,000 copies before Oprah recommended it to her 15 million to 20 million daily viewers. Now The Deep End of the Ocean has become entrenched at the top of the New York Times fiction best-seller list, ahead of works by Sue Grafton, Danielle Steel, Mary Higgins Clark, Scott Turow and Stephen King. As she watched her novel sweep past such household names, Mitchard says, "I felt I was having an out-of-body experience...