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Less prestigious schools may have to compensate for their lack of cachet by paying heftier salaries, Cotton said. And private donors are pitching in to help large public universities foot the bill for top-notch presidents. For example, Mark G. Yudof, the University of Texas chief, receives nearly 90 percent of his $651,000 compensation package from private sources...
Forget the magnificent red wine. Visitors to the Abbaye du Val des Choues, a 12th century Cistercian monastery in Burgundy, may come away with a real souvenir?"les honneurs," the foot of a wild boar. But only if they catch the beast first. Since 1999 In?s Monot, co-owner of Val des Choues, has been opening her home and her hunt in the lush forests to adventurous Europeans. With a ban on fox hunting looming in England and Wales she is seeing a growing number of visitors from across the channel. So far this season (which runs from mid-October...
...Darfur to degenerate into another Bosnia or Rwanda? I am surprised by the evasive tactics of the Bush Administration and its European counterparts. After its blunders in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. does not want to be seen as antagonizing another Muslim state, and the European Union is foot dragging, probably out of fear of reprisal attacks by Islamist militants. The defenseless people of Darfur need the intervention of the free world before they are completely exterminated. We must collectively rise up and protect those people, whose only "sin" is that they are black. Paul Onoriode Oteri Sapele, Nigeria...
...dogged congressional foot soldier, Burr worked hard on the Bush Administration's Medicare reform bill, supports medical-malpractice reform and a constitutional ban on gay marriage and has backed positions friendly to drug companies. Such loyalty earned him frequent campaign visits by President Bush and other members of the Administration. Even so, he had to overcome the higher public profile of his Democratic opponent, Erskine Bowles, as well as his own earlier support for free-trade agreements, which never went down well in a state with two big industries--tobacco and textiles--vulnerable to overseas competition. Burr's win flips...
...G.O.P. knew that every last disciple would be needed because the Democrats had so much money to spend this time. The liberal 527 America Coming Together (ACT), which overall spent $125 million registering voters and turning them out, had 30,000 paid foot soldiers in Ohio alone, making ACT, for a day, the state's biggest employer. And alongside ACT was an army of free-lancers and first-timers and recruits from every Democratic activist group, matching the Republican faithful step for step...