Word: pauling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chair of the Undergraduate Council Student Affairs Committee John Paul Rollert '00, says the primary rants he hears from students on their textbook costs blame the Coop, where they buy most of their books, for overpricing...
...Samuelson award is named after Dr. Paul A. Samuelson, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics...
...marriage between a man and woman, or the Eucharist. It maintains that the gender of a priest is not accidental but essential. Christ was male, he appointed male apostles, so the minister who absolves sins and personifies Christ in celebrating Mass must be male. "I declare," wrote Pope John Paul II in 1994, "that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women...
...appears that the investigation into unclaimed bank accounts of Holocaust victims may cost the Swiss banking establishment a billion-plus francs (say $800 million)--perhaps more than the total value of the original deposits. The international investigating commission under PAUL VOLCKER, former chief of the Fed, says it needs until June 1999 to finish its work. The Volcker Commission has 500 chartered accountants combing through tons of archives at 63 banks, and those sleuths don't come cheap. The bankers are livid about the expense and time; some of the smaller banks are threatening to throw out the commission...
...taking photographs regularly, in 1895, Edgar Degas was 61 and long established as one of the great French painters. But his disposition, sober at best, was decaying into melancholy and the poisons of anti-Semitism. His eyes were failing too. In this show, which travels next to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the best pictures match his dryness to his darkness. Go first to his elastic Nude (Drying Herself), which begins in weird lamplight and ends in shadow. As raw as any of E.J. Bellocq's shots of New Orleans prostitutes, it also has the strange torsion...