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...banished by the country's ruling military council in 1990; to the throne; in the capital, Maseru. More than 10,000 subjects watched as Moshoeshoe's son King Letsie III, who had been installed after Moshoeshoe's dethronement, formally abdicated and handed back the crown to his father. DISMISSED. FAUSTO ALZATI, 41, Mexico's Minister of Education; by President Ernesto Zedillo; after the press discovered that the Harvard University doctorate and National Autonomous University of Mexico law degree Alzati claimed to hold did not exist; in Mexico City. Although Alzati studied at both schools, he never wrote a dissertation...
...freshman biology students know enough to sink this study," declares Anne Fausto-Sterling, professor of medical science at Brown University. Others are more receptive to LeVay's work. "It makes sense," says Laura Allen, a neuroanatomist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Finding a difference in the INAH, which influences male sexual behavior, "is what one would expect." The finding also has social implications. "People who believe that sexual orientation is a choice help legitimize discrimination against homosexuals," says Melissa Hines, a UCLA psychologist. "But if it is immutable, or partly so, then that argues for legal protections...
...show contains a few further surprises, such as the gritty and beautifully painted domestic dramas of Fausto Pirandello (1889-1975) and the best of all younger Duchampians, Piero Manzoni (1933-63), whose balloon full of artist's breath and cans full of artist's feces are wonderfully prophetic satires on a market mania whose present inflation he could scarcely have imagined...
...provinces of Salta and Tucuman, where troops backed Training Institute Director General Augusto Vidal for the top military post. Said one insider: "The President was not about to show that the rebels could put up a nominee." Still, Caridi's appointment was part of a high-command housecleaning. General Fausto Gonzalez, who was said to be a rebel favorite, was named deputy chief of staff. In all, 15 of the army's 29 serving generals retired and will be replaced by younger...
...past 15 years, Mengele has vanished behind a curtain of supposition and speculation, becoming an almost mythic figure whom many have claimed to have seen just about everywhere. The ubiquity is partly explained by the thesaurus of aliases under which he operated. At one point, Mengele called himself "Fausto Ridon," at another "Friederich Elder von Breitenbach." He also passed himself off as "Gregorio Gregori," "Jose Alvarez Aspiazu" and "Pedro Caballero...