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...Could somebody have a husband and a woman partner at the same time and be a Christian? ... I doubt that very seriously." DONALD WILDMON, Fundamentalist minister, protesting the appointment of Patricia Ireland, the former president of the National Organization for Women who lived with a woman while remaining married, as head of the YWCA...
...creative writing teaching staff. Poet Peter Richards and novelist Zadie Smith, writer of the acclaimed book White Teeth, will both offer instruction in the creative writing program next year, according to Buell. Novelist Katherine Vaz will fill the position left vacant by current Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction Patricia Powell next year...
...Patricia O’Brien, Badaracco’s wife and future co-master, says she and Badaracco accepted the appointment “on the spot” when they received an offer from Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...
...requires disclosure of top people's pay and severance packages at listed companies, but so far it has disclosed only a few cases of high pay for poor performance. Can legislation put the fat cats on a diet? Recent British shareholder activism has encouraged Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt to prepare a paper looking at excessive board-room remuneration awards, but its ultimate recommendations remain uncertain. And in the end clever executives and accountants could find ways to circumvent legislation. It's up to shareholders to hold the cats' paws to the fire...
...revelations gave the Times a hard shove into the company of the nation's other great but occasionally humbled papers: the Boston Globe, whose columnists Mike Barnicle and Patricia Smith resigned in 1998 after charges of serial plagiarism; the Wall Street Journal, whose financial columnist R. Foster Winans was convicted on 59 counts of conspiracy and fraud in 1985 for using his articles to make money in the stock market; and the Washington Post, which had to return the 1981 Pulitzer Prize won by reporter Janet Cooke for the haunting story of Jimmy, the 8-year-old heroin addict...