Word: abraham
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Known simply as Pyat or cryptically as Pallenberg, Moorcock's dubious hero was born on the first day of 1900 to a laundress and a "radical" father who stayed around just long enough to have his son circumcised. The mark of Abraham is Pyat's secret shame and key to a mordant joke underlying The Laughter of Carthage. There is enough internal evidence (allusions and outbursts of Yiddish) to conclude that Pyatnitski's gene pool is thoroughly integrated. Rabid anti-Semitism is his way of denying the past and advancing his career as scientist and gentleman. There is also ample...
...page charge that took two hours to read, Federal Judge Abraham Sofaer outlined the complex issues that the four women and two men on the jury had to evaluate. In reaching a verdict on former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's $50 million libel suit against Time Inc., he explained, they faced three sets of questions about a single paragraph in TIME's Feb. 21, 1983, cover story about an official Israeli report on the 1982 massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut. First, could the disputed passage, which reported on discussions...
...Perhaps Reagan, intimidated by deficit concerns, feels more limited than his predecessors in the Oval Office. Thomas Jefferson instantly accepted a deal to buy the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, money the new nation did not have. Jefferson was convinced that Americans would pay, and they did. Abraham Lincoln at first hoped the Civil War might take a few million dollars and a few weeks to win. But after four years he had the world's biggest army and a conflict that cost a million dollars a day. Franklin Roosevelt plunged the nation billions of dollars into debt...
Both sides had rested their cases three weeks ago, but the attorneys' final arguments were delayed while Federal Court Judge Abraham Sofaer worked out a highly unusual arrangement with the Israeli government to allow limited access to secret documents involved in the case. After its representatives had seen . some, but not all, of the relevant documents, TIME issued a correction regarding one sentence (see box). But TIME asserted that the substance of the paragraph was true and protested that it had been denied access to key testimony given to Israeli investigators that could confirm the story...
...David Abraham, the bottom line is a tarnished reputation and the prospect of being out of work in June, when his appointment at Princeton finally expires. But for the entire profession there seemed to be another bottom line, defined by a senior historian and A.H.A. committee chairman who, after all the furor, insisted on anonymity. "I feel an immense sadness," he said. "We have not shown our best face to the world...