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...Shelley Davis, who was hired in 1988 as the IRS' first official historian, is resigning because she believes the agency is shying away from cataloguing its records, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday...
Most shoppers, however, won't make any big purchases this year until they get a bargain. Last week Shelley Draheim and her husband Jim looked longingly at a $300 NordicTrack exerciser but said they probably would not buy the machine unless it goes on sale. "It's something that would be good for us long term," says Draheim, a research director for the Chamber of Commerce in Omaha, Nebraska. "But what we spend on it is money that doesn't buy groceries." Also watching every buck is Anne Branigan, a Chamber of Commerce colleague whose husband recently lost...
...conference was organized by Robert Ryan of Rutgers University and Ronald Sharp of Kenyon College. It was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Keats-Shelley Association of America, the Pforzheimer Foundation, the Acriel Foundation and Houghton Library...
Ramesses is also much celebrated outside of Egypt, though many Westerners probably don't connect the name with the fame. In Exodus he is simply known as "Pharaoh," and Shelley's poem Ozymandias, inspired by the fallen statues at the Ramesseum, his mortuary temple at Thebes, takes its title from the Greek version of one of the ruler's alternate names, User-maat-re. "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" said the inscription on the pharaoh's statue in Shelley's sonnet. Though the poet was making the point that such boasts are hollow because great monuments eventually...
Five months later, an Oregon housewife named Shelley Shannon shot and wounded Dr. George Tiller outside a Wichita, Kansas, abortion clinic. Evidence seized after Shannon's arrest linked her to arsons at clinics in four other states. It also hinted at the existence of a clandestine network. Police found correspondence with two men who were imprisoned for abortion-related violence buried in Shannon's backyard. Also unearthed was a manual for attacking abortion facilities, published by something called the Army...