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...able to download personal information on the likes of Dick Cheney and Brad Pitt from a ChoicePoint rival, Westlaw. Nearly 10 million people were victimized last year by identity theft, at a cost of $5 billion. Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, pledged to schedule hearings on the topic. And that was before Bank of America learned, as first reported by TIME.com that it had lost several data-backup tapes that held information on at least 1.2 million federal employee credit-card accounts--possibly including some of Senators...
...artist. The painting is Caravaggio at the height of his lethal powers. Throughout his life he included his own likeness in his canvases. But in exile, as he meditated more forcefully on his fate, he appears more frequently than ever. In The Raising of Lazarus - a powerful topic for an artist yearning for a papal pardon - he's struck by the same shaft of light that picks out the dead man. In his somber Saint Francis in Meditation, he may even be the saint. If so, it would be a telling use of himself to give authenticity to the idea...
...know, I’m certainly not going to try to give another academic talk on a topic where I’m not an expert on all of the various kinds of research that have taken place,” he said. “So I certainly don’t want to engage in more general speculation...
Mendelsohn said the process had been pressed for time even before Summers became the dominant topic at last week’s Faculty meeting, and some curricular review proposals might have to wait until next year...
...President Matthew J. Glazer ’06, who said before the meeting that the UC would not be making a statement on the Summers debate because the campus is “significantly mixed on the topic,” said after the meeting that the bill did not get voted to consider because there is no campus or UC consensus...