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Dalma Heyn's study of unfaithful wives begins promisingly with a startling canvass of literature's most famous adulteresses. From Anna Karenina to Emma Bovary, the cheating woman pays a steep price for her unchecked sexuality: she winds up dead. "What if she were your best friend, or your sister?" Heyn challenges. "Would you still need to see her punished?" Heyn, it seems in her opening pages, is going to vivisect the biases that continue to hold women to a different sexual standard from men. Oh boy, I think with post-Murphy Brown glee. Dan Quayle is going to hate...
...torrential rainstorm -- the worst in a decade -- that crippled the city, poisoned the Seine with sewer effluent, and clogged the river with 300 tons of dead fish. In one hour in early May, a squall dumped a record 110 mm (4 1/3 in.) of rain on Hong Kong, turning steep city streets into rushing rivers and killing five. In the Middle East this January, the wettest, coldest winter in recent memory was capped by a storm that blanketed Amman, Damascus and Jerusalem with much more snow than anyone there had seen for 40 years...
...such, they have earned steep salaries and lucrative bonuses-- bonuses that in 1989 placed their earnings at over $1 million dollars each, far higher than any other Harvard official at the time...
Most universities abroad have state funding, but that luxury has a steep price: universities have less opportunity to develop distinctive personalities and define their own missions. "There isn't a lot of competition or innovation in Japanese higher education because there's too much government control," says Nana Regur, an international-education specialist...
Beyond the increased administrative costs, Witt says he has seen steep increases in royalty fees...