Word: owens
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Meyer Professor of Middle East History E. Roger Owen said that he hopes more classes will be offered next semester with the arrival of a visiting professor in the government department to teach a course on Islam and politics...
...Whale is domestic tragedy recollected as comedy: a film whose catalog of deceits and embarrassments, and of love pratfalling over itself, makes it as (excruciatingly) painful as it is (exhilaratingly) funny. Its family quartet--including Laura Linney as wife Joan, Jesse Eisenberg as 16-year-old Walt and Owen Kline as his 12-year-old brother Frank--is a fearless, faultless acting ensemble...
...Kozlowski and Swartz aren?t exactly sympathetic figures. They were found guilty of looting their company of hundreds of millions of dollars. Before Monday's sentencing, Assistant District Attorney Owen Heimer told the court that Kozlowski "should not be shown any leniency. He stole. He committed fraud. He committed perjury. He engaged in a shocking spree of self-indulgence...
...evacuees, the constitutionality of assistance matters far less than the assistance itself. The day before Katrina hit, Albert and Anne Betz moved with Jane Todd, 10, and Owen, 7, out of soon-to-be drowned Pass Christian, Miss., and into a condo in Sandestin, Fla. Back home, Anne had taught at the children's private Episcopal school, but the couple heard that the best schools near Sandestin were public and were happy with the one to which their kids were assigned. Within days, however, Anne received a letter from the Walton County School District stating that the onslaught of evacuees...
...bigger problem may be that Gonzales would have to recuse himself from several key cases, including one on the use of military commissions to judge suspected terrorists. Roberts would have to sit that one out as well, leaving a liberal majority. Still high on the list: Judge Priscilla Owen. Fallen off: Judge Edith Brown Clement, believed guilty of excessive self-promotion--a sin in this Administration. --By Viveca Novak