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Last year, 10 learning disabled students sued B.U., alleging that the school's policies for disabled students discriminated against them and that Westling's remarks created a hostile environment for them. A judge awarded the students modest settlements totaling about...
...Fahey's new beau, Scanlan, and her sister Kathleen who on Saturday, June 29, went to Fahey's modest third-floor walkup after Anne Marie failed to keep a dinner date. They were struck by strewn groceries and shoe boxes and a blinking answering machine, things the compulsive Fahey wouldn't have tolerated. When grilled by police, Capano admitted to the affair and called Fahey unpredictable and "airheaded." In other words, just the type to disappear without a trace...
...which began last week and will continue through this week--confirm this: one big bang, and not much else. The bang was afforded by the collection of works by Picasso (plus some by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and other American artists) put together over 50 years, on a fairly modest budget, by Victor and Sally Ganz. It was one of the more famous American private collections, and it contained some works--especially the Picassos--of very high quality...
Defying conventional skepticism about the public appetite for history on the hoof, Undaunted Courage sold more than 750,000 copies, about half of them in paperback. "I had no idea that it would become so big," says the recently retired University of New Orleans history professor, whose more modest literary successes include books on Custer, Crazy Horse, Eisenhower and Nixon. "It's a whole new game," he says. "At the age of 60, I became a rich...
...clerks in a modest Budapest store detest each other at work, yet carry on a passionate love affair through the mail. Brattle Theatre...