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Already a convicted felon before he arrived at Harvard last year, Hogue, 33, was arrested two weeks ago today for allegedly stealing between $50,000 and $100,000 in precious gems from the Harvard Mineralogical Museum...
...unrealistic to pretend that the administration has no political beliefs. It is likewise unrealistic to believe that its opinions will never leak through to its policy. The debate on homosexuality is primarily one of morality. While most conservatives would like to believe that they have a monopoly on this precious commodity, the Administration believes that tolerance is a moral virtue. And it is the prerogative and the right of this private institution to teach whatever moral lesson it wants...
...brother's death in an auto accident before seat belts were standard. Technology that would have saved him had been developed, but the public was not yet ready for it to be imposed. Thus Blessing grasps the nettlesome underlying issue: in a society that says human life is infinitely precious but patently does not mean it, how many deaths are enough to command change in public policy...
...gardens become extensions of the natural world, the gardeners who tend them inevitably see themselves as caretakers of a precious and endangered heritage. "In the U.S.," estimates Donald Falk, director of the Center for Plant Conservation in St. Louis, Missouri, "we have around 20,000 kinds of native plants. And 1 of every 5 is presently in trouble." Midwestern gardeners affiliated with the Nature Conservancy have started to grow some of the rarer species of prairie plants, incorporating them into their flower borders and carefully harvesting their seeds for replanting elsewhere. Other nativescapers play the role of modern Johnny Appleseeds...
...whole story. They also indicate that this remarkable singer's managers have tried several times to reinvent her to suit themselves. Talking with her now, it is difficult to believe such a self-consciously independent woman would permit anyone to tinker with her name, much less something as precious as her identity. At 63, Lincoln is in full command of both her life...