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...addition, the "hiring away" method is insufficient because it does not make a contribution to the nationwide dearth of women and minority academics. This is not to suggest that Harvard can be faulted for going after the finest available scholars. Academic excellence, after all, is this institution's modus vivendi...
...stings, which began in 1987, after he was arrested in New Jersey for writing bad checks. But in the case of Isabel Garcia of Elizabeth, N.J., her defense lawyer has collected memos from authorities in Union County, N.J., showing that the DEA has been aware of Portell's seductive modus operandi since at least the fall of 1987. Garcia loaned Portell $8,700, which he returned in the form of bad checks. She claims she arranged a coke deal only because Portell promised to repay her with the proceeds from the sale. Last week she agreed to plead guilty...
...Harvard police soon contacted the Boston Musuem of Fine Arts (MFA) because the MFA had reported a 14th century Ming vase stolen from its Vitrene case only four days before. According to Tempesta, FBI agents investigating the MFA theft checked the Fogg for fingerprints because the modus operandi in both incidents was similiar...
...official modus vivendi Bustamente talks about is a reminder that this is a unique border between the first and the third worlds. Perhaps the closest ^ comparison is the frontier between Western and Eastern Europe. Yet whereas the East Europeans are preoccupied with keeping their own people in, U.S. efforts on this frontier revolve around keeping foreigners out. Only the bureaucratic language and style are similar. WARNING reads a sign in English and Spanish in the U.S. pedestrian immigration hall at San Ysidro. YOUR ACTIONS AND CONVERSATIONS ARE BEING RECORDED BY VIDEO CAMERA...
Like Collegium Musicum, the Latin name Musicus Modus Vivendi implies tradition. It means "music as a way of life." The name can be seen as a musical pun on the word "mode," which refers to the type of musical scales early composers used...