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...farm. "It was like a big cloud lifting from the island," says Willie McSporran, who led the buyout. "One farmer told me: 'I went whistling and smiling to pay my rent, knowing that it wasn't going into the pocket of a laird.'" Last year Assynt's residents followed suit. The place had been stagnating, partly because the Vesteys had an agreement with Britain's Inland Revenue to keep the land in its natural state in exchange for inheritance-tax relief. Locals claimed that when they wanted land to start businesses or build houses, the Vesteys often declined their requests...
...parents filed a $27 million lawsuit against her psychiatrists, as well as her house master and a dean of student life, for failing to take adequate precautions. (They had scheduled an appointment to see her the following day.) When a judge last year refused to throw out the suit, alarm bells went off in administrative offices across the country. "To hold a university liable for simply trying to help a student is extraordinary," says Nelson Roth, Cornell's deputy university counsel, explaining why the school joined six others in supporting M.I.T. in the case. Shin's death was a tragedy...
...unexpected detour lands Lightning in Radiator Springs, a southwestern hamlet off Route 66 that lost its bustle and prosperity when the Interstate went up ages ago. The town's pulse--does it even have one?--doesn't suit Lightning, who's itching to get to L.A. for the biggest race of his young career. But he's stuck in nowheresville, obliged to repave a road he had torn up on his way through...
...cast that way. "Shonda sees the world through the eyes of human beings. That's the bottom line," says Washington, who says his role as the brilliant surgeon has finally allowed him to break away from playing so many stereotypical thug roles. "Her characterizations are definitely her strong suit," says ABC Entertainment chief Stephen McPherson, "and characters are what drive great television." As for race, the show never approaches it head on, except sometimes to flip expectations on their head. Three of the top doctors are black, and the character who had the toughest childhood is white...
...someone boring during their eight-hour shift.ALL IN THE FAMILYSix of the seven newbies gathered on a spring afternoon two weeks ago to reflect on the divergent paths each took to become a University officer.For Angela A. Kerr, one of two women in the group, wearing a black pant suit and an affable smile, becoming a police officer meant accomplishing what her mother had not been able to do years earlier.Kerr worked with the University before donning the blue uniform. She says she wanted to see more action than the confines of the Holyoke Center could offer her.Matt M. Ferazzi...