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...use for money(!). A hero in his character, if not in his cause, was Robert E. Lee, who after his considerable loss, was exhausted and without an income. An insurance company offered him $50,000 (easily a million today) to use his name. Lee said, "I cannot consent to receive pay for services I do not render," and eventually accepted the presidency of small and impoverished Washington College, which became Washington and Lee after his death. For what he told the insurance company, he could be put to death today...
...hates lawyers, and the idea of court-clogging animal-rights litigation makes eyes roll. Wise's job is to divest mankind of some of its metaphysical self-importance--the absolute dominion over nature granted by Genesis, Aristotle and the Great Chain of Being, a hierarchy in which man may use all subordinate creation as he pleases, for everything from food to biomedical research...
SUSPENDED. DARRYL STRAWBERRY, 37, Yankees' designated hitter who tested positive for cocaine in January; for one year, by commissioner Bud Selig; in Tampa, Fla. It is his third suspension for drug use in five years. Two days after the ruling, the eight-time All-Star checked into a rehabilitation clinic...
...been fanned by New Delhi's public commitment to develop India's information-technology sector. Dotcoms are sprouting across the country, spurred additionally by the entry of big international investment funds. Some Indian-born Silicon Valley programmers and engineers are finally coming home to put their skills to use. But Jain has been happy just to put his money in the bank...
...embraced the pure marketplace with ideological fervor, Europeans continue to believe the state has a role to play in guiding markets. Exhibit A is the GSM (global system for mobile communications) standard introduced in the European Union in 1991. Thanks to GSM, a subscriber in Portugal can use her phone from Ireland to Hong Kong. The U.S., in contrast, still allows various incompatible standards to compete like trains running on tracks with different gauges. As a result, a New Yorker cannot use his cell phone in London and, depending on his carrier and his instrument, sometimes not even...