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...Harvard, the canon still seems to rule the roost--the best Spy could muster was a course on Welsh poetry...
...Klerk, moreover, has expressed ambivalence when Zulu war parties known as impis have paraded provocatively through township streets carrying spears and other so-called cultural weapons. Professor David Welsh of the University of Cape Town believes the government is guilty of "gross negligence" for having all but ignored repeated recommendations that could have prevented the Boipatong massacre, such as maintaining police surveillance of migrant-worker hostels...
...election holding the balance of power in Parliament and a new lease on life. That outlook is promising. The absence of Oxbridge polish on the campaign's three stars coincides with a blurring of the ideologies that have long divided Britain. The opposition Labour Party of Neil Kinnock, the Welsh laborer's son, has struggled to shed the albatross of radical socialism. Now the ruling Conservatives of Prime Minister John Major, the school dropout, are patching up the social safety nets scorned by Margaret Thatcher's survivalism of the fittest. With much less to choose between the two main parties...
...really a slap in the face when they get easy transition goals," Welsh said...
Pinkerton's was involved in litigation in the 1980s that drove home the need for industry standards. A Pinkerton's guard at Welsh Manufacturing, a former division of Textron in Rhode Island, admitted he took the job specifically to arrange the theft of gold he was supposed to be protecting. As a result, Welsh won punitive damages. The case, which led to an appellate decision in 1984, exposed Pinkerton's inadequate screening and supervision of its employee. Management never bothered to contact any of the three character references the guard provided. And while Pinkerton's contacted his former employers...