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...denounced the existence of "networks of Freemasons" that, he said, were exerting an influence on the region's judiciary. His allegations were given renewed life with the revelation last October that Alain Bartoli, a Nice police officer and a Freemason, had used a law-enforcement database to conduct extensive background searches on several people. Bartoli has admitted using classified police files only to check up on candidates for membership in his local lodge, but among those he targeted for searches were President Jacques Chirac and De Montgolfier himself...
...This background made him a logical choice when PSLM discussed which of its members should run. Some other PSLM members who considered running opted out to prevent multiple PSLM candidates from splitting pro-living wage SAC votes...
...refused, and three weeks later, Knowles forcibly removed her and appointed Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber—who is not a member of VES and has no formal background in the arts—to the position...
...more visible on the Firestone issue, but it was decided that Nasser should take the heat. And he did. Nasser appeared on television ads, did interviews and charged down to Washington to beat back Congress. Everywhere he went, he blamed Firestone. Ford would stay in the background, in part to preserve his image. In the event that there was real evidence of wrongdoing on Ford Motor's part, then the credible Ford could step up and fess up. He is still being held in reserve on this issue...
...Minnesota administration though, so Snowdon was interested when a graduate student, an ex-nun, told him about the aging sisters at her former order, living out their retirement in a convent just two hours away. He was already familiar with the advantages of studying religious groups, whose relatively uniform backgrounds mean fewer variations in lifestyle to confound the data. An order of nuns whose economic status, health care and living conditions were especially uniform would be an excellent starting place for an epidemiological study of the aging process. So he went out for a series of visits. Both Snowdon...