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...inconsistent with the University's stated opinion that decentralized systems are better than bureaucratized formal ones. But one wonders what would have happened if students groups hadn't sprung up--at least three were begun in the last three years--or if they couldn't do a thorough enough job dealing with harassment complaints. And even if they are able fully to address all the complaints which arise, they are still equipped only to counsel, and not to make reparations...
...test, the posting was canceled, and he was fired by the agency. Howard returned to his native New Mexico and became a bona fide economic analyst for the state legislative finance committee. After Yurchenko began identifying KGB "assets" in the U.S. during a lengthy debriefing, the FBI started a thorough background check on Howard, including interviews with co-workers and neighbors. Howard was last seen at his office on Sept. 21, a Saturday. The next day his supervisor found a letter announcing his resignation for "personal reasons." It is assumed that Howard fled to Mexico, perhaps through Dallas...
Women and politics, not to mention men, take a thorough drubbing in The Good Terrorist. The heroine, Alice Mellings, 36, is thick-witted, tubby and held in thrall by her "admiration and wistful love" for Jasper Willis, a loutish layabout who also happens to be a homosexual. Alice's adult life has been spent caring for this creep and setting up a succession of "squats," or communes, where they can live until Jasper wears out his welcome, which seldom takes long. After four years of staying with and sponging off Alice's divorced mother (whose class Jasper winningly calls "bourgeois...
Although this incident did not prove deadly, the bomb squad at the scene took no chances. One firefighter ordered officials to avoid communicating over the air waves, and the team decided not to remove the grenade from the mailbox until a thorough analysis had been completed, one officer said...
...estimate includes the cost of equipment, supplies, and the services of Harvard and contracted personnel used in campus repairs, as well as over $20,000 in preparations for the storm. Campus officials, who expected that preparation costs would exceed $50,000, will receive a more thorough account of expenditures from the Facilities Maintenance Office on October...