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HUAM Acting Director Marjorie B. Cohn said the uncertain economy and stagnant endowment payouts were to blame for the layoffs. Seventy percent of the art museums’ operating budget comes from endowment revenue, Cohn said...
...stations are critical of me. I can't blame them. How do you demonstrate your independence? By criticizing your own boss. I believe I was the most hands-off TV owner ever in Italy. Since I entered politics, I haven't made one phone call to my business group...
...were wondering how online dating became acceptable, even almost fun, blame Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey. Four years ago, they invented the Nerve com questionnaire, which replaced communicating your charms in hieroglyphic SWF-form with a Cosmo-style quiz. You got to name your most humbling moment, choose your favorite sex scene in a movie and come up with words for lines like "Blank is sexy; blank is sexier." Desperate contractions were replaced by insta-wit and faux self-deprecation. Taylor and Sharkey's questionnaire is now used by more than 150 newspapers and websites and has been filled...
...occurred. Mandela feels that he represents justice and truth and thus can say and perhaps do anything he wants. But the threat to world peace lies in the self-righteous mentality of certain people who try to sum up all of the problems in the world and focus the blame on one object. They are judging an entire people by the actions of a few. Osama bin Laden thinks he represents God, points a finger at Americans and puts all his efforts into killing people. Are we ever going to get past nationalism and hostile ignorance? William Simcoe Vantaa, Finland...
...Adding insult to possible injury, the government has been running a series of spiteful anti-Suu Kyi articles on the front pages of its state-run newspapers. These stories, supposedly written by a disillusioned NLD insider, blame Suu Kyi for the May clash, call her "willful and hard-headed" and praise the junta profusely: "Whatever the provocation, responsible leaders of the present government, preferring to act with forbearance, and on the basis of give and take, have always chosen to take action in moderation." Though few Burmese find the articles believable, many find them entertaining. "Some of the stories they...