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...easy chair, coffee cup nearby, and flip back and forth, ripping out articles, snipping coupons and scissoring photos and obits for a bulging scrapbook. Handheld electronic devices that scroll text may one day make that pleasure obsolete, but they are not newspapers and will never take their place. Paul Wesel, BOSTON...
Clearly no isolated case, the Telekom affair is being cited as one more example of waning respect for basic civil liberties. Uwe Wesel, an emeritus law professor at Berlin's Free University, said German courts have generally upheld privacy laws, but that individuals in positions of power appear to have grown impatient with the law. "Although the language of the courts is very clear that this kind of behavior is not allowed, there does appear to be a certain cultural shift taking place," he says. "Perhaps driven by the debate about the threat of terrorism, certain standards are weakening...
...hiring was also unusual because Wesel wasn't a published writer and hadn't taught college. Marius, who used to ride his bicycle to the summer conference, says he hired Wesel on the advice of his wife...
...Wesel eventually accepted Marius' offer and came to Cambridge to teach during the 1985-86 school year. She received extremely high student evaluations, sources say, and was popular with other teachers...
...almost as soon as she came, Marius soured on Wesel. And despite the student evaluations, she was not rehired for the following year, and returned to teaching school in Homer, Alaska...