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Consider the famous scene in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in which the slave trader Mr. Haley hunts down the heroine Eliza to regain the property that she stole from him. Although readers might conceivably sympathize with Haley as a victim of theft, we in fact only feel sympathy for Eliza. After all, the property she stole is her own five-year-old son. It is Haley, not Eliza, who is being unjust...
...when the high school began to learn of the inconsistencies between the claims made in Wheeler’s transfer application and his actual time in high school, the initial concern on the minds of administrators at Caesar Rodney was the possibility that Wheeler was a victim of identity theft...
Project, and other organizations—reported the theft to HUPD on Friday afternoon. HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano said he was unaware of the incident and declined to comment...
...incident is currently being investigated as a theft of University property, and according to Cohen, time-lapse cameras that were installed to record plant growth prior to the incident may help the investigators catch the thieves. Garden administrators are currently reviewing this footage...
...during his sophomore and junior years. That earlier project, “Songs from the Tundra,” is a musical about reindeer herders. One sequence in the film follows a small child from eating raw mountain goat brains with his father after a hunt to playing Grand Theft Auto III on his computer at home. “The punch line,” Berman says, “is that you shouldn’t take people at face value...