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...when the University purchased rights in 2003 to a 468,000-acre swath of New Zealand forest belonging to Maori natives to become the second-largest forest owner in New Zealand, industry sources estimated it sold for more than $600 million...
...There's no denying it's payback for what's happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. You've been bombing people for the last two to four years, so you are going to get a backlash." SARAJ QAZI, Muslim shop owner in Luton, England, on possible reasons for the attack...
...museum; its top floor has a shrine surrounded by Roman columns. In nearby Xiangang you'll find the opulent Ruishilou, its upper floors a wedding cake of layered balconies. If you like the way the building's name looks on one of the walls, it's because the original owner had hired the province's top calligrapher, a monk from Guangzhou, to inscribe it. When it comes to flaunting it in China, today's big spenders could learn a thing or two from these splendid buildings...
KARL ROVE SAYS HE ONCE ASKED YOU ON A DATE AND YOU TURNED HIM DOWN. ANY REGRETS ABOUT THAT? No comment ... [Later, after talking about other subjects] On Karl, I'm crazy about him; he's a good friend. In fact, he introduced me to Texas Rangers owner George Bush many years ago. So I was being flip in my answer...
Researchers do not impose restricted-access provisions. Rather, they are imposed on us by data owners (in my case, a federal statistical agency), who cannot gather confidential information if they do not protect respondents from identity theft and privacy violations. Restricted-access laws prevent a researcher handing data directly to others. If another researcher wants the data, he must go through the data owner. (the agency that supplied my data works with any legitimate education researcher). The federal government is serious about researchers not distributing restricted-access data. The penalty for a violation is up to $250,000 or five...