A report from Haaretz's Website discloses that Haifa University is returning a $25,000 bequest from David Radler. "Radler's gift to the university has been frozen since 2003 after it was learned that some of the money was misappropriated from the Jerusalem Post's... charitable fund, which was established some 70 years ago to collect money from the paper's readers for the needy."
A Haifa spokesman, Amir Gilat, said to the paper that there was no procedure in place for quashing Mr. Radler's honourary doctorate from the university.
You'll find the details here, including the fact that Haifa was not the first university to return a Radler bequest.
A brief note of it has been posted at JTA's Website.
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Yes, it is interesting that "Fitz" removed himself: one of the earmarks of a good prosecutor is to know when not to proceed. A large part of the reason why prosecutors have 90+% success rates is because they don't lay charges in doubtful cases.
Thnaks for asking. It's set in Brittany, France, during the Ancient Regime - 1713, specifically. I wrote it back in October, 2003, after several months' worth of background research into the place and time.
It's a bit of an "art" book, with a gimmick. Fortuitously, Brittany seemed to have been a ship-off point to North America for the works of the philosophes.
What gave you the idea? Is there a message? A pov?
It began as a self-challenge. Any message in it is historical: what life was like before the concept of "liberty" was known.
I suppose I should have. For the common run, life back then was basically pragmatic with respect to the laws and edicts. They knew quite well that aristocrats, nobles, priests, etc. were human beings. It was normal to stick to one's knitting, except in the business classes, and businesspeople tended to tread cautiously unless they were out of authority's (often immediate) reach.
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