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Nevertheless, Simpson is managing to get by. Earlier this year his lead attorney in the civil case, Robert Baker, threatened to quit over money. Baker stayed on, which suggests Simpson found a way to pay him. In the meantime, Simpson also has bills from the custody battle. Where is he getting the resources to live day by day and defray at least some of his legal expenses? One knowledgeable source offers an intriguing theory. He says that like many celebrities, Simpson has lawsuit insurance and may have succeeded in making a deal with his insurance company whereby it pays Simpson...
...think the conservative winds have quit pushing the K-School further rightward, think again. On Dec. 3, the concept of the panel discussion will gain new meaning. According to a press release from the Coalition on Urban Affairs (CUA), a euphemistically named right-wing advocacy group, a conference on "Free Speech, Sensitivity and True Tolerance" will be convened next Tuesday at the ARCO Forum focused on the critique of Peninsula printed in this space one month ago. Who is to be included on this K-School panel? CUA says it will have John Leo, a reactionary senior columnist...
...grow shorter. Each time a cell divided, the daughter cells it produced had a little less telomere to play with. Finally, when the cell reached its Hayflick limit of 100 or so replications, the telomere was reduced to a mere nub. At that point, the cell quit replicating. Once it did, researchers theorized, the genes previously covered by the telomere became exposed and active, producing proteins that triggered the tissue deterioration associated with aging...
Workers stationed at "T" stops in Harvard, Porter and Central Squares and at the Cambridge hospital handed out "survival kits" filled with chewing gum, raisins and information on how to quit permanently for smokers who wanted to quit for the day, according to Patricia M. Anderson of the Tobacco Control Program...
...says a former editor-in-chief of the Economist told an interviewer that he had resurrected the Economist from the throes of oblivion, when in fact he had quit shortly after he became editor in chief...