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...trade, describes his method of coping with a difficult but intriguing servant: "The only way to exist in harmony with Annamalai was to take him as he was; to improve or enlighten him would only exhaust the reformer and disrupt nature's design." From Narayan's decision to suspend judgments hangs a galaxy of irresistible tales. --By Paul Gray
State officials could take even tougher action if they decided to suspend Hutton's brokerage licenses. Connecticut has begun hearings on such a move. Hutton now manages $100 million in assets for 13,000 clients in that state. Hutton, declares Brian Woolf, the Connecticut banking commissioner, accepted a public trust but then "betrayed...
...artists to emerge from the '80s. His 1992 Puppy, a 43-ft.-high dog made of flowering plants, is probably one of the most widely seen outdoor works of our time. He's at work on a project called Train for a site in Paris where a crane will suspend a locomotive steam engine 80 ft. above the ground, with its nose pointed straight down. At least once a day, while hanging in midair, it will chug into action for about five minutes. You might think of that as a good metaphor for cultural exhaustion. He says no. "The moment...
...UC’s bylaws prohibits giving grants to “discriminatory” groups (although FiCom can vote to suspend the rule), and the Seneca falls into this category because it admits no men. Since the money that the UC disburses ultimately comes from the student termbill fee, it is inherently unfair to ask the entire student body to financially support the initiatives of a student group that does not admit members of a particular gender. Money is fungible. Funding any activity of a student group—even if the activity benefits the community at large?...
Perhaps someone should have warned Arnold Schwarzenegger that nurses are no pushovers. For weeks, California's famously tough Governor has been locked in a furious feud with the state's R.N.s over his decision to suspend new state rules that would limit the number of patients a nurse must care for. The tiff took off at a statewide women's conference in Long Beach last December, when the Governor ridiculed a group of nurses who were there to protest. To be sure, the R.N.s were provocative, unfurling a banner that read HANDS OFF OUR RATIOS--a not-so-subtle reference...