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...condition that drastically suppresses one’s autoimmune system. Wagner’s ate away at my father’s kidneys until they finally gave out in a Chicago hotel room. Miraculously, doctors were able to regain his pulse and sustain his life in the nearby Northwestern Hospital. Though he needed two years of dialysis, a procedure where my dad was bedridden and attached to a machine for four hours, three times a week, he ultimately emerged with a kidney transplant in 1993, returning to a normal life against the odds...
...Fastow was never considered a big man on campus, not even at his suburban New Jersey high school. A teacher there remembers Fastow only as a slacker who tried to talk him into raising his grades. Hardly anyone at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management can even recall him from his years as an M.B.A. student. The response is similar at Tufts, where he studied Chinese and economics as an undergrad and played a little trombone and tennis on the side. Most Enron employees didn't know who he was until relatively recently. As head of Enron Capital Management...
...Unfortunately, the Watergate precedent may not hold up. "Legal scholars generally agree the Nixon case wasn't very well reasoned, and actually provided very little guidance for future cases," says Northwestern School of Law professor Bob Bennett. Generally, a certain allowance of privilege is given to situations that appear to concern issues of national security or deliberative privacy. Is this one of those cases...
...Then there's the deliberative aspect of executive privilege, generally considered to be less politically resonant than the national security claim - but important nonetheless, says John McGinnis, a visiting professor at Northwestern and a former Justice Department official who has served as an advisor on issues of executive privilege. "I certainly think Cheney is able to point to a long history of executive branch precedent, in which the President claims privilege in deliberations," McGinnis says. "Cheney can argue that high-ranking members of the executive branch must be able to have candid conversations without fearing disclosure...
...from claiming to harbor the verdant Himalayan valley in the shadow of a glacier-clad peak, shaped like a pyramid. The People's Republic of China is the latest to jump on the bandwagon, announcing in 1996 that it had found Shangri-la in the mountainous Deqin prefecture of northwestern Yunnan province. Not to be outdone, Sichuan, its equally scenic neighbor to the north, has since claimed the title for its Yading Nature Reserve in the Konkaling Mountains. Its assertion is based on a 1931 National Geographic photo-essay about the area said to have inspired Hilton's tale...