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...Owen J. Gingerich, professor of Astronomy, will host two programs on Canadian radio this spring...
...pledge $1 million, which it has specified for use in developing the public policy program at the Kennedy School of Government. The line may also have won over some of the committee members themselves. Amory Houghton Jr. '50--who has a controlling interest in Corning Glassware, Dow Corning, Owen-Corning Fiberglas and Pittsburgh-Corning Corp.--arranged for those four companies to donate $750,000 which, along with the Houghton family's own check, will endow a $1-million Amory Houghton Sr. Professor of Chemistry. And Time, Inc. will donate half-a-million in memory of former publisher Roy E. Larsen...
...pledge $1 million, which it has specified for use in developing the public policy program at the Kennedy School of Government. The line may also have won over some of the committee members themselves. Amory Houghton Jr. '50--who has a controlling interest in Corning Glassware, Dow Corning, Owen-Corning Fiberglas and Pittsburgh-Corning Corp.--arranged for those four companies to donate $750,000 which, along with the Houghton family's own check, will endow a $1-million Amory Houghton Sr. Professor of Chemistry. And Time, Inc. will donate half-a-million in memory of former publisher Roy E. Larsen...
...pledge $1 million, which it has specified for use in developing the public policy program at the Kennedy School of Government. The line may also have won over some of the committee members themselves. Amory Houghton Jr. '50--who has a controlling interest in Corning Glassware, Dow Corning, Owen-Corning Fiberglas and Pittsburgh-Corning Corp.--arranged for those four companies to donate $750,000 which, along with the Houghton family's own check, will endow a $1-million Amory Houghton Sr. Professor of Chemistry. And Time, Inc. will donate half-a-million in memory of former publisher Roy E. Larsen...
...years ago, you couldn't sue city hall at all," says Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz. Since then, a series of decisions, including several this term, has virtually shredded the doctrine of governmental immunity. A boon to citizens, perhaps, but a threat to already overloaded dockets. In Owen vs. City of Independence, the court refused to allow municipalities to duck certain civil rights suits by trotting out the defense that their employees had acted in "good faith." Then, in Maine vs. Thiboutot, the Justices ruled that under a Reconstruction era act, individuals could sue a state...