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...always pleased when a distinguished university improves the support of its students, for that opens the doors of higher education even wider," Knowles said...
...subject AS IF WE HADN'T GUESSED is marginalia--the notes one makes in response to something, usually in books. A forthcoming book called Marginalia WHAT ELSE?, by H.J. Jackson (Yale University Press), deals exclusively with the marginalia in books, but it also suggests the wider subject of how the mind works generally. [MARGERINEALIA...
...illustrated not just a junkie's noble path to rehabilitation, but also?and perhaps more importantly for the regime's propagandists?his glorious transformation from soap-dodging Westernized reprobate into a clean-cut Burman patriot. The Burmese military liked to characterize its war on drugs as part of a wider campaign against colonialism and all its nefarious agents. This was spelled out by Khin Nyunt in a speech at Mongla in 1999. He blamed Burma's drug scourge on the "pernicious legacy" of British colonialists, a legacy exacerbated by what he called "the unscrupulous actions of the politically motivated neocolonialist...
...finishing touches on its next generation Explorer, which is due out late next month. The new model has been in development since 1996, long before the tire crisis was visible. (Indeed, plaintiffs' lawyers are probing that process for evidence of Ford's culpability.) It has a longer and wider wheelbase, which make it more stable and, by the way, earned it three rollover stars in the NHTSA calculations. By the end of this year, the Explorer will be available with a battery of safety systems, from electronic tire-pressure monitors to "AdvanceTrac," which automatically corrects for a loss of traction...
They give no warnings. They leave few clues. But a band of environmental terrorists, which has left a trail of destruction across the Western and Midwestern U.S. for the past three years, is making no secret of its ambition to wage a wider war. In recent weeks it has struck on the East Coast, hitting targets on New York's Long Island...