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...inquirer will never know, but Davies' readers are luckier. Two unearthly spirits appear bearing privileged information. One is the Lesser Zadkiel, an assistant to the Recording Angel; the other is a daimon called Maimas, who steered Francis Cornish through his existence. Maimas insists that he was nothing so wimpish as a guardian angel, a role he describes as "detestable theological fraud." He did not shelter his charge from evil but hounded him mercilessly: "My job was to make something of Francis with the materials I had at hand...
...Jonathan Pollard, 31, a plump, balding Navy counterintelligence analyst, was accused of receiving nearly $50,000 for selling military information to Israel, a trusted ally that officially bans any spying against the U.S. His wife Anne Henderson-Pollard, 25, was later brought in on lesser charges...
...rogue cop from the L.A.P.D.'s Rampart division, was arrested in 1998 for stealing cocaine from a police warehouse, he implicated 70 antigang cops, alleging corruption, excessive force, planting evidence and falsifying testimony. In the end, eight cops were indicted; of these, four were cleared, three pleaded to lesser crimes, and one is awaiting trial...
...10’s characteristics, the latter is the least likely to be altered. But TFs say that Mankiw appears very open to allowing students to drop the course, with credit, after the first semester. And to a lesser extent, TFs say, Mankiw has discussed with them the allegations of a conservative bias...
Summers and the Faculty have of late clashed to a lesser extent over the College’s ongoing curricular review...