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...having flashbacks of 1987," the year that the sexploits of Jimmy Swaggart and financial hijinks of Jim Bakker gave televangelism its reputation for sleaze. But while the allegations in the suit certainly meet Swaggart-quality standards of salaciousness, the causes of the university's fall may owe more to mismanagement than greed or negligence, suggests John Schmalzbauer, an expert in Christian higher education at Missouri State University. Unless some party siphoned off "massive multimillion-dollar diversion of funds over 25 years," he says, "I think the causes must be deeper and more structural...
...inevitable, even in the West, that all women must accept a 1 in 10 lifetime risk of the disease. In light of increasing evidence that the risk of breast cancer can be significantly reduced by simple dietary changes, regular vigorous exercise and reduced alcohol consumption, we as a society owe it to our daughters to alter our lifestyles. We should be thinking much more ambitiously about prevention rather than the costly and disappointingly ineffective strategies of cut or burn and poison that the conventional war on breast cancer has to offer. Trevor Smith, Auckland...
...return at their passing to its dormant state: a wooden box with four strings. Most agreed that Rostropovich's greatest legacy was his ability to cajole and inspire the major composers of the century to write for the cello. In total, there are said to be 132 compositions that owe their existence to his enthusiastic suggestion, a figure evident in the many scores lying around studios and practice rooms in Kronberg with the inscription "To Mstislav Rostropovich" under the title...
...middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina. But Eva was a unique phenomenon in Argentine history, so I'm not foolish enough to compare myself with her. Women of my generation owe her a debt: When we came of age during the dark [military] dictatorship of the 1970s, we had her example of passion and combativeness to get us through...
...classes to choose whether to graduate under the old or new system. Under the hard transition, a student who had already taken four of the seven required Core courses would only have to take three Gen Ed courses.“If you did a hard transition, then you owe it to every student to say that they get credit for every Core that they took,” Harris said.At its second meeting yesterday, the committee used anonymous course transcripts to examine the effects of an abrupt curricular switch. After the exercise, “there were several people...