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...good job of managing three or four different characters without letting one run into the other, and Naeemah A. White-Peppers' clever costume design aids them in this. Occasionally the show begins to drag when the lack of distance between the audience and the players makes it difficult to suspend disbelief...
...Federal officials suspend a $14 million contract with the Harvard Institute of International Development after discovering possible improprieties in HIID projects in Russia. Accusations focus on Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer '82, who allegedly "abused the trust of the United States government by using personal relationships...for private gain," officials...
...University completed a formal investigation of the coach's "pattern of inappropriate behavior." The university might have fired Knight outright, as Dwight Eisenhower and George C. Marshall might have fired Patton. The university might have considered intermediate steps - prefrontal lobotomy, say. Instead, Indiana decided to fine Knight $30,000, suspend him for three games next season, and give him one no-kidding-this-time "last chance" to behave himself. If Knight had been losing basketball games, of course, he would have been cut up for bait long ago. Forbearance follows the money...
Such companies and the charlatans who operate them seem always to have a ready and willing audience. They sell dreams and peddle fantasies to those eager to suspend disbelief--or, worse, as eager to corrupt a healthy skepticism into a self-serving prejudice as willing to decry an oppressive scientific establishment as to buy a silly story fabricated out of whole cloth. Who knows why the bookstore chose to classify this book as "History"--yet one can find an inkling of it when the author notes that history is just "the notions of the guy who's writing...
...July, a federal court ruled that Harvard had the right to suspend two graduating students and deny them diplomas even though they had completed all their graduation requirements...