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...recent theft of an Oriental rug from the Straus Hall common room has led to a debate of the merits of collective responsibility. Unable to find the thief, the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) has decided to divide the cost of replacing the rug among all Straus residents. The FDO made a similar decision a few weeks earlier, charging all Wigglesworth residents for damage done to the common room. While the FDO may claim that collective responsibility fosters a sense of community among the residents, communities formed under such circumstances rapidly degenerate into factions. The students against the Faculty...
Security officials at the Galleria Mall reported that their video recorded tow men stealing five to ten cases of prosciutto from a delivery van at the loading dock. The theft occurred at 7:35 a.m., and the stolen food was estimated to be worth...
...minister of St. Petersburg's Bethel Metropolitan Baptist Church and head of the powerful National Baptist Convention, USA, says he is one of them. While he admits moral lapses, he says the 82-page arrest affidavit served on him on Ash Wednesday, full of charges of racketeering and grand theft, is the devil's work. In the only interview since then, Lyons, 56, told TIME he was a man at peace--"I can sleep comfortably again"--and ready to fight. "My daddy was a strong Baptist deacon and he gave me this good name. It doesn't mean trickster, deceiver...
...flesh out realistically complex personalities, and the dilemma that results from the course of their relationship has no easy solution. The play asks, who has the right to turn a person's life into fiction? Is Lisa's novel about Ruth's life an act of love or a "theft" of stories which she has no right to appropriate? The answers to these questions are further complicated by statements which Ruth makes early in the play about having a "need" to write certain stories, no matter whom they hurt...
...British literary scene; by the time of his death, he was working on such prestigious projects as screenplays for "The Beatles". His plays belie his homosexuality, and often gained much of their power and humor from their ability to candidly joke about, for example in Butler, the postmortem theft of Winston Churchill's penis. And yet even in the supposedly free era of the 1960s, Orton was unwilling to publically announce his homosexuality, and was killed by his jealous lover in a twisted murder-suicide...