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...Nelson Fairchild Jr. is by no means the scariest of these, but he has the problems--and dreams up the solutions--that set a very complicated plot into irreversible overdrive. The alcoholic son of a Northern California land baron, Nelson wants to leave his wife Winona but cannot without impoverishing himself. His tyrannical (and Roman Catholic) father has given Winona title to the house and property as a means of discouraging divorce. But Nelson needs money fast; he chickened out of a cocaine-smuggling scheme in the Rome airport, and now owes an irate druglord back home nearly...
...vast sum of money," Nelson calculates. "My wife's insurance would take care of that if she died." He says this to Carl Van Ness, a stranger he has just rescued from a drowning-suicide attempt in a pond near his wife's house. Here, Nelson believes, is an answered prayer. Since Van Ness seems intent on killing himself--because he believes himself, for reasons unclear, already dead--why would he mind taking out Winona before completing the job on himself...
...There's a lot of force building around all these issues," said Cary R. Nelson, Jubilee professor of liberal arts and sciences at the University of Illinois and an expert in academic labor unions. "There's so much activity on so many campuses...
...Nelson said if GESO can make the general counsel's decision recognizing its members as employees of Yale hold, it would impact universities across the U.S. where similar actions are taking place
...challenge the legitimacy of the commitment ceremonies "we would have had to form a policy against it," Nelson said...