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...haunt their old victims. They are part of an unusual experiment in Minneapolis that aims for rehabilitation through restitution. Under the program, convicts sentenced for nonviolent property crimes live in a halfway house, take jobs and use part of their earnings to repay what they stole. Says Ron Johnson, supervisor of the Minnesota Restitution Center: "It's one thing to break into a garage. It's another to have to look the owner in the eye afterward. We're building a sense of responsibility...
...course, it does not always work that way; authorities claim only a "modest success" so far. Of the 58 "clients," as they are called, 18 have either disappeared, committed new crimes or bent the rules sufficiently to be sent back to prison. Supervisor Johnson believes that it was one of them who burgled the Johnson apartment, leaving an anonymous thank-you note. The program will now try to improve results by dropping random selection. Meanwhile, there is special pride in the thief who last month became the center's first graduate. Now completely on his own, he is working...
...April Esquire Magazine article, Gerry Nadel wrote that the high-rent tenants in the towers "are moaning about thin walls and loose plumbing." But Landreth claims that Pei and Partners "did only schematic drawings for the apartments, and not the interior." Nevertheless, Pei, as the architectural supervisor for the project, can't be completely exonerated for the faults inside the apartment...
...million it will cost to replace the windows. The reflection glass, and the window company, Libby-Owens-Ford, could be at fault--the use of reflective mirror-like glass might have caused the heat stress that the BSA had originally warned the designers about. But as architectural supervisor for the building, Pei and Partners again can't be totally free from blame. And it is possible that Pei and Partners might have designed a building without the materials existing to make its concept work...
Timely Tips. One recent article offered some timely tips for income tax-conscious academics (to deduct professional travel, get a supervisor's approval and keep a diary). Another followed up the responses of eight Boston universities involved in last year's term-paper scandal, in which hundreds of students bought papers from "term-paper factories"; the Chronicle reported that five schools (Boston College, Harvard, M.I.T., the University of Massachusetts and Northeastern University) took no action at all against the students involved. Last week the paper printed a thorough compendium of faculty salaries at more than 1,500 colleges...