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...their roles in the failure of the savings and loan at the heart of the Whitewater controversy. "The committee is now moving into the Arkansas phase of its investigation," D'Amato wrote in issuing the subpoenas. "We will continue to gather the relevant facts. We will be fair, thorough and impartial." Fairness was a concern to McDougal, who said he would be happy to appear before the panel and take a lie detector test, but wants D'Amato to do the same. He challenged the Senator to "take a lie detector test concerning his family connections with the Mafia...
Brancusi was born in 1876, in a small village in Romania. He completed a long and thorough training in sculpture in Bucharest before reaching Paris, almost penniless, in 1904. He even worked briefly as a studio menial for Auguste Rodin before quitting in the realization that, as he later put it, nothing grows under great trees. Throughout his life, legends stuck to Brancusi like burrs; he was apt to be seen as a peasant sage, a Carpathian exotic (to most Parisians, Romania barely qualified as part of Europe). And he seemed even more of an original to American collectors...
...press release also states that "despite a thorough investigation, the sender of the message was never discovered...
This week, after a six-year, 2.3 billion-mile odyssey, a 2 1/2-ton, instrument-crammed spacecraft named after the Italian astronomer will hurtle past two of those moons, Europa and Io, then swing into orbit around Jupiter. There, if all goes well, it will conduct the most thorough study ever of the solar system's largest planet and its swarm of moons (Jupiter is known to have at least...
...undergraduate TFs can gain the respect of their students through sections, office hours and even a thorough and clearly explained grading system. Professors give undergraduate TFs responsibilities as a matter of trust as well as an occasional manifestation of laziness. That trust should be sufficient to satisfy any University regulation. It's time to scrap the objective-only rule and let professors decide what their...