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DIED. NIGEL HAWTHORNE, 72, British stage and screen actor internationally known for his role as the pompous, conniving civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby in the 1980s British television series Yes, Minister; of a heart attack; in Hertfordshire, England. Expert at dry, laconic wit, Hawthorne scored a late-career triumph in the title role of The Madness of King George, for which he was nominated for an Oscar...
Charles P. Slichter ’45, a former Corporation fellow, said Stone has been a “remarkable servant of Harvard...
...risen to the occasion about as well as any public servant ever has. He's not afraid to express very fundamental, heartfelt, almost inexplicable devotions, devotion to his country, devotion to God, devotion to old verities...
...menial labor. "Folding my shirts is not strenuous work," says Joseph Law, spokesperson and founder of the Hong Kong Employers of Overseas Domestic Helpers Association. "A lot of hours of their day are spent doing things like ironing and shopping. That isn't exactly taxing." A retired civil servant, Law is lobbying for the maids to receive a 15% pay cut on the grounds that their home currencies are devalued and Hong Kong's economy is weak. He points out that maids in Hong Kong make as much as those in Taipei, and 2.5 times what they earn in Singapore...
...brief visit to Poso by Chief Security Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Dec. 5 and a pledge of several thousand more troops did little to reassure Christians. "What is really needed is for the security forces to go in and disarm these outsiders," says S. Pelima, a civil servant and Protestant preacher based in the regional capital of Palu who served on a reconciliation team of community and religious leaders set up by the Governor last year. Since the May 2000 eruption, he says, the team had managed to contain the violence between the two communities to a few killings...