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PBHA is an independent, nonprofit corporation, autonomous from the University. However, Harvard pays the salaries of its 10 staff members, making it awkward when the University's and PBHA's interests conflict...
...treaty signed in Paris last week hardly deserves a standing ovation. Bosnia's awkward division fails to compensate the war's victims and could sow the seeds of the new state's future dismemberment. But while the plan may not be perfect, it is bold, imaginative and offers perhaps the best peace one could hope for in Bosnia's far from perfect world. That seems somehow fitting, if only in the sense that the deal's virtues and its flaws suggest the character of the man who did so much to craft...
...ruling that the on-line service was responsible for a comment posted by an anonymous user. Part of the rationale for the decision was that Prodigy does do some monitoring of its content and therefore, like a publisher, is liable. This decision leaves such companies in the awkward position of having to either leave their content entirely unabridged, or monitor it with a ridiculous degree of stringency. However, there was another, more heartening legal precedent set recently. Federal judge Leonie M. Brinkema, in a case brought in Virginia by the Church of Scientology, admonished the Church for using copyright...
...daughter to survive the act of love by closing her eyes and concentrating on the British Empire. Marriage in this crowd is a patriotic duty, not a pleasure; and the consort--Philip in the case of Elizabeth, Di in the case of Charles--has always been in a rather awkward spot. In Di's case, the indignity was compounded by the fact that Charles already had a woman for purposes of companionship and love. Camilla Parker Bowles was his real partner, Diana just a means of reproduction...
...other words, they have fussed with Sabrina, but they have not really engaged it. They have not found the little twinges of pain, the awkward stumbles into vulnerability, that animate the best comedies, and the best love stories too. Wilder's film had a few of them--enough to ensure that the movie and its audience did not feel totally manipulated--but nothing on the grand scale of Thompson's great blowout...