At 05:08 PM 10/25/2012, Melinda Shore wrote: >don't think that these are in any way analogous, since in each >case that you mentioned the individual who left was either incapacitated >or had pre-arranged an absence. If someone simply disappeared from >work without notice or comment I expect it would be handled rather >differently. Professor A does not return from Sabbatical at the time he had previously indicated. He is not reachable. Congresswoman B goes into 90 day rehab suddenly. Her staff says only that she's unavailable. At the end of 90 days, she extends for another month. I can go on. We know that Marshall is unresponsive for a while and that is the ONLY fact we have. We suspect (from the 2nd party Facebook conversation) that we know why. But the truth may be (and probably is) somewhat different. Later, Mike