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...29th, police in Bavaria arrested a British man who had fallen asleep in his car at a service station near Aschaffenburg. Officers found Peter Murray-Cowan, 39, dozing at the wheel of an Audi so stuffed with boxes of what appeared to be Microsoft Office 97 Professional software that the car was barely drivable. Sensing counterfeit, police took both driver and 4,000 copies of one of the world's most popular business programs - worth $2 million on the retail market, according to Microsoft - into custody. Murray-Cowan, a British businessman and would-be politician who ran for local office...
...Michael Portillo, who both denied plotting to unseat Duncan Smith, were among eight M.P.s who controversially voted against the party line and in favor of allowing gay and unmarried couples to adopt. But the measure failed in the House of Lords. GEORGIA Free at Last Kidnapped English businessman Peter Shaw was about to be shot on a mountain path in Pankisi Gorge when he broke free and hid in gorse bushes. He escaped after five months captivity, during which he had been kept chained in a cellar. The banker was seized in June in Tbilisi by a gang disguised...
...Peter Gabriel...
With a decade between Up and his last album, the beautiful and emotionally fraught Us, Peter Gabriel may have forgotten why musicians have to curb the tendency to wallow in themselves. Gabriel may be physically incapable of making a sonically uninteresting album—Up is certainly no bubblegum chart-topper—but at times he seems to have lost track of his knack for melding oddball ideas with a pop sensibility honed to perfection in his years with Genesis...
...mystery out of the tenure process.” One idea he floated, making sure that each faculty member has a copy of the Faculty handbook, is a no-brainer. But far more important is ensuring that tenure review procedures are standardized and transparent. Former Associate Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz, whose suit against the University is ongoing, asserted that in his tenure review the Faculty failed to follow its own grievance policies. And last year, University President Lawrence H. Summers reportedly denied tenure to two 54-year-old professors, contradicting the unanimous recommendations of their departments, stunning their colleagues...