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...home. John's daffy older sister Marion (Katherine Parkinson, whose voice is as treacherously sweet as cotton candy) is halfway to becoming a Miss Havisham. The youngest Whittaker is Hilda (Kimberley Nixon), who is both jealous of Larita and bewitched by her and is, in her troublemaking, a clear precursor to Briony of Ian McEwan's Atonement, written nearly 75 years after Coward's play...
Designed to handle crimes committed in times of war or rebellion, military commissions stretch far back into American history. General George Washington convened a precursor to a military commission - a board of inquiry - in 1780 to try a British major accused of conspiring with Benedict Arnold during the Revolutionary War. The board recommended to Washington that Major John Andre be executed, and he was promptly hanged. Military commissions' first documented use came during the Mexican-American War in 1847, when the U.S. Army occupied large areas of Mexico that lacked a working court system. Since then they've been used...
...Judging by current unemployment figures and mortgage delinquency rates the economy is getting worse as each month passes. According to TransUnion, a leading consumer credit reporting agency, mortgage loan delinquency, traditionally seen as a precursor to foreclosures, increased for the eighth quarter in a row. This statistic is up approximately 53% from the same period last year. Likely contributing to that rise, unemployment rose in February from 7.6 to 8.1%. And a new Reuters poll of economists forecasts that unemployment will top 10% as early as next year...
...levels of vitamin D are 40 percent more likely to report respiratory infections such as colds and flu. The study analyzed data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, in which 19,000 participants were tested for their blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D—a precursor of the vitamin that is considered the best measure of its concentration. Study participants with the lowest vitamin D blood levels were found to be much more likely to report having a recent respiratory infection. This result was even more pronounced in those with a history of asthma or chronic...
...Cline said, emphasizing the implementation of a variety of cross-library initiatives, among them the consolidation of the serials management and technical services units. But as for the serials services unit now bound for Central Square, the move which is apparently aimed at consolidation may be a precursor to dissolution, according to a staff worker in the library system who asked not to be named in order to protect his relationship with the University. The individual said he fears that his future position in the Central Square facility will be a watered-down version of his original job, and indicative...