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Abel writes like a dramaturge, developing character and conflict mostly through articulate dialogue that ping-pongs between her smart, if oftentimes deluded or flawed characters. This makes La Perdida as engaging as good theater. A typical scene pits Memo against Carla in a long argument about the purity of Carla's motives for staying in Mexico. It lasts for over five pages with Memo saying things like "You teach over-priced English classes to under-educated Mexican morons who buy into the imperialistic American model?" To which Carla wonders about Memo's real reasons for learning English. "It wouldn...
...Jewellers, an argument across the counter appears to be verging on a fistfight. Two men punch calculators furiously. A third appears to wrestle with the seller. Dangayach laughs and interprets: "He's saying 15 rupees a carat, the other one says 2, and the broker says, 'Yes, you take it for the pleasure.'" Finally, the deal is done at 5.25 rupees per carat. "I've seen a broker literally pick up Munnu and carry him across the room to close the transaction," says De Taillac...
...joined a friend-of-the-court brief supporting FAIR’s case. But faculty members took a more active role, and last fall, 40 Harvard law professors filed their own brief in the case. In yesterday’s opinion, the court singled out the professors’ argument and struck it down.In a statement last night, a spokesman for University President Lawrence H. Summers said that the University still remains opposed to the amendment.“Harvard fully respects the Supreme Court’s decision, but we continue to believe that the Solomon Amendment...
Dealing a setback to his alma mater, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 rejected an argument put forth by 40 Harvard Law professors when he delivered the Supreme Court’s opinion in a major military recruitment case yesterday.In the first paragraph of his holding, Roberts singled out the Harvard professors’ brief and later wrote that the Harvard faculty members’ interpretation of the Solomon Amendment is “clearly not what Congress had in mind.”The Harvard professors had asked the court to avoid a constitutional showdown...
South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds had to decide whether to side with the Purists or the Pragmatists in the Abortion Wars. His decision to sign the state?s dramatic new abortion bill means the Purists have prevailed, and the moral, political and legal argument surrounding abortion rights is about to turn a corner...