In consultation with colleagues, True decided that it was time to limit ancient-art acquisitions to objects that had previously been written about by scholars and were known to the archeological community.
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, he said the reforms were not just about "making the numbers add up", but were intended to bring "new hope" to people who had previously been written off by the system.
"But our welfare reforms go beyond that alone - they are about giving new purpose, new opportunity, new hope - and yes, new responsibility to people who had previously been written off with no chance.
This was a Horatio Alger story, but unlike any that had previously been written; both the starting point and the place of arrival were rigorously analyzed, and nothing put under more scathing scrutiny than the writer himself -- his own ambitions, embarrassments, dreams and shame.
Within five seconds, though, Mozart diverts us into a hushed series of suspended harmonies, each dissonance resolving to a consonance in a soundscape that, in its own very modest way, is quite different from any symphony that had previously been written.
In 2009, the state recommended firing Charles Weimer, an employee in western New York who told a resident, "Why don't you get a Brillo pad and scrape the black off you?" Mr. Weimer, who had previously been written up for abuse, sleeping on duty, medication errors and neglect, was reassigned, and was only later fired for violating his probation.
"But our welfare reforms go beyond that alone - they are about giving new purpose, new opportunity, new hope - and yes, new responsibility to people who had previously been written off with no chance," he added.
The cancer genome is like a palimpsest, an ancient parchment that was frequently reused, each time retaining traces of what had previously been written.
