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There is certainly room to quibble over some of Langewiesche’s interpretations, as Rhonda Roland Shearer, the widow of the late Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould, has attempted, with some success. While she has provided alternative interpretations of the facts, she has not proven Langewiesche wrong on his most controversial findings, including the case of alleged looting...
...DIED. ROLAND HANNA, 70, delicate, ceaselessly versatile jazz pianist; of a viral infection of the heart; in Hackensack, N.J. The Detroit native, who was knighted by the Liberian government and went by the title "Sir," studied classical piano before joining Benny Goodman's band in 1958. He went on to work with such diverse musicians as Charles Mingus, Sarah Vaughan and Coleman Hawkins...
...think [the workshop] was great because I don’t think I would have visited the [office] myself,” said Chandran Sabanayagam, a post-doctorate fellow at the Harvard-affiliated Roland Institute, who said he is considering starting a company...
...defending its trademarks; while Mecca-Cola says its targets are elsewhere, Coke's lawyers might already be seeing red. THE BOURSE All Fall Down Just when you think the apocalypse at Switzerland's largest life insurer, Swiss Life, must be complete, in swoops another horseman. Last week CEO Roland Chlapowski became the second top executive to be ousted in nine months; the next day board chairman Andres Leuenberger resigned. The 145-year-old company's share price has plunged 80% this year, and investors have turned their wrath on the board and management as investigators have widened their probe into...
...Europe as a safe haven for planning attacks against U.S. interests elsewhere in the world, as Atta's Hamburg cell did. But most investigators know they can't be complacent, especially because there are so many other indications of heightened al-Qaeda activity. French independent terror expert Roland Jacquard says he has seen recent intelligence reports suggesting that "networks previously thought to be struggling are at the very peripheries of much larger, better organized and fully operative structures." There have been key arrests - six Tunisians suspected of plotting a bomb attack in northern Europe were picked up in Italy, France...