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Although she currently serves as the director of the telescope data center at CFA--a position overseen by the Smithsonian, rather than Harvard University--but does not hold the title of the directorship...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles has also overseen much of the renovation...
...landed too far away to cause the fires. But, she added, "I did not want those [hot grenades] used. I asked for and received assurances that they were not incendiary." She confessed the news did not help her credibility and promised another probe, most likely overseen by an outside legal expert, into a controversy she thought she had put behind her. "She is not a person who screams or throws things," says a Justice Department official, "but she is doing the functional equivalent of throwing a Ming vase...
...boomtown growth of the assisted-living industry has left it a bit rough around the edges. While nursing homes are federally regulated, assisted-living communities are overseen by the states and thus subject to widely varying standards. A federal study in four states (California, Florida, Ohio and Oregon) found "unclear or potentially misleading" language in sales brochures for about one-third of the 60 assisted-living homes surveyed. The most common problem was a failure to disclose the circumstances under which a resident can be expelled. One Florida home promised that seniors would not have to move if their health...
...stab at a stable domestic life faltered. "Neal wanted her to become completely submissive, like a trained dog," says Van Dyke. Though he was generally liked in Metaline Falls, Furrow drew the ire of locals when at one point, pistol strapped to his waist, he confronted a logging crew overseen by Van Dyke's son, asking whether any "n______" were working there. "Not today, maybe tomorrow," the crew replied scornfully. Debra Mathews was reportedly furious because her husband had "stirred up" the loggers, who thought of bringing their own guns in to work...