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...became cured while reading a passage in St. Matthew and thereafter taught the unreality of all physical ills. Spiritualism was the rage of the 1850s, and a heroine of Henry James' The Bostonians went into mesmeric trances to gather recruits for the cause of feminism. Walt Whitman believed in transmigration of the soul -- "And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,/ (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)" -- and so did the practical-minded Thomas Alva Edison...
That will bring no immediate help for Public Service, which is battling with dissident creditors over rescue plans. A group of bond owners (estimated holdings: $200 million) led by New York City Investor Martin Whitman is proposing to spin off Public Service's share in Seabrook into a separate company, thus leaving the utility less encumbered by debt. Losing Seabrook, however, is anathema to the utility, which still hopes to reap the hefty return that an operating nuclear plant can deliver. Public Service's Harrison proposes to restructure the debt, slash the utility's costs and raise electric rates...
Mainstream money-making methods--such as lawyering, doctoring, and "Spam"-endorsing--quickly are becoming obsolete in the face of the lucrative world of media scams. The media is the best way to quickly amass large sums of the American people's money, as evidenced by the triumphant "Slim Whitman" album offers, the enormous wealth of the Televangelist Beggars, and the successful peddling of anything made of porcelain...
...openly defended lying to Congress to conceal his illegal acts. He committed his crimes in support of a bad lot of men who engage in widespread rape, murder, and torture. What other "real Americans" may we look forward to viewing in the Harvard Coop windows? Charles Whitman? Richard Speck? Ed Gein? Perhaps Charles Manson...
...Interior renovations in two Cabot House Halls--Cabot and Whitman--will be completed by September 15, although work will continue through the fall on the basements and possibly also on the common rooms...