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Justice Department officials said the Boston seizures were part of a nationwide effort to make more aggressive use of the forfeiture provisions of the federal Controlled Substances...
Gienapp said he was also considering whether or not to accept a visiting professor post at the University of California at Los Angeles. But he added that "I would consider it a real opportunity to teach at Harvard and be part of such a distinguished faculty...
Under the current police contract, which expires July 31, police officers automatically receive the same benefits the University grants to other hourly-wage employees, including the clerical workers. These benefits--including life insurance. medical insurance and disability insurance--granted to the clerical workers will automatically become a part of the new police contract, Mederos said...
Naipaul's success story is similar to those of other gifted outsiders who have become part of the tradition of English letters. Coming from backgrounds they found provincial and embarrassing, they offered themselves to high culture, only to discover that they had shut the door on their best material. "I was a man who had no idea of what to write about," says Naipaul of his early literary efforts in London. Turning his imagination back to Trinidad released his gift and led to his first successes, lighthearted novels and stories about his island society...
...have persuaded many people that some territories should be placed off limits to oil-field development. Last week the House Appropriations Committee voted to enact a yearlong ban on drilling off vast areas of the coasts of California and Florida, a 50-mile stretch of the mid-Atlantic and part of New England. Congress has never before urged so sweeping a ban on offshore exploration. The committee also voted for a year's moratorium on oil and gas exploration in Alaska's Bristol Bay, an exceedingly rich fishing area...