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Even America's evangelical community, usually at the nation's vital and visionary edge, has been uncharacteristically subdued as it ponders a retreat from the political activism of the 1980s...
General Augusto Pinochet has won a tactical victory, but Chile's former dictator remains in a posture that military men may term "armed retreat." An appeals court judge on Monday dismissed a house arrest order against the former dictator on a technicality - the investigating judge had failed to interrogate Pinochet before issuing the order, as required by Chilean law. Judge Juan Guzman had sent Pinochet a questionnaire during the general 503-day detention in Britain, but it had been returned unanswered. Now the matter will be referred to Chile's Supreme Court, which may rule as early as Thursday...
...currently spending $10 million revamping its technology. Five faculty searches are underway. A strategic planning retreat for faculty has been planned for January. New online education programs are in the planning stages, and Murphy said the school also plans to focus more attention on gender and education...
Theodor Seuss Geisel, who is best known as Dr. Seuss and has sold up to 400 million books, would approve of his final resting place, for there was a bit of the Grinch in him. He cherished the solitude of his mountaintop retreat, and he never had children of his own. ("You make 'em, I amuse 'em," he famously said.) He doted instead on the menagerie of misfits and mischiefmakers who have populated his children's books since 1937's And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Unlike Walt Disney and Charles M. Schulz, Geisel kept...
...Theodor Seuss Geisel, who was best known as Dr. Seuss and sold up to 400 million books, would approve of his final resting place, for there was a bit of the Grinch in him. He cherished the solitude of his mountaintop retreat, and he never had children of his own. ("You make 'em, I amuse 'em," he famously said.) He doted instead on the menagerie of misfits and mischiefmakers who have populated his children's books since 1937's "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street." Unlike Walt Disney and Charles M. Schulz, Geisel kept...