Word: bidness
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...report over and over that everyone was still waiting for a verdict. Members of the Goldman family tried to go about their business, but they too were tethered to their cellular phones and pagers, waiting for word. The Brown family was in worse straits, as they lost a bid to stay the decision awarding custody of Sydney and Justin Simpson to their father. Only Simpson seemed to have a strategy for coping with the tension. Fielding media requests for postverdict interviews, he reiterated that he needed money and would consider speaking only for cash. Beyond that, friends said...
...then-vice president, Hahrie C. Han '97, attributed the moratorium to the organization's tight finances. "Hahrie said that PBHA was not accepting any new programs because of a constraint of resources they were going through," said Haynes. "I figured that this went hand-in-hand with their bid for autonomy...
SOFIA, Bulgaria: Bulgarians are finding out that democracy can be an unwieldy thing. Citizens have staged 22 days of protests in a bid to un-elect the now reviled Socialists, and elected a president, Petar Stoyanov, who they hoped would find a way to ease the Socialists from power. But when it came to the formation of his Parliament, Stoyanov Tuesday came up against the country's constitution, which requires him to offer the mandate of government to the largest party. The Socialists accepted. There is hope, however, that their new rule will be conciliatory. Party leadership has since offered...
Eighty-one pages into The Good Book (Morrow; 383 pages; $25), his entertaining bid to grab serious Bible study back from the religious right, Peter Gomes quotes his guiding spirit: not St. Paul, Paul Tillich or scores of other cited exegetes, but obscure Yale historian and teetotaler Roland Bainton, who in 1958 defended his abstinence "based on biblical principles [although] not based on biblical precepts or biblical practice." Gomes applies this same distinction to biblical texts on slaves, Jews, women and homosexuals, explaining why each group's persecution or exclusion, even if derived literally from Holy Writ, runs counter...
...charities, may have broad implications as other states look for ways of streamlining their welfare programs. Private contractors in California already do some welfare administration, such as bookkeeping, collection of delinquent child support payments and computerized record-keeping. If approved, the reform plan would give them the chance to bid on many jobs now performed primarily by state and county workers. While many county officials feel the effort could move more people off welfare, critics fear the new folks in charge will not have the interests of the needy at heart. Anne Arnesan, director of the Council on Children...