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Prosecutors are not having an easy time. Milosevic does not play by all the rules: he refuses to read court papers, will not meet with prosecutors and does not accept standard documents as evidence. This has slowed down the proceedings. The prosecutors have been left to bear the brunt of Judge Richard May's insistence on "judicial economy"--with repeated instructions to cut their witness list--in a case expected to last up to two years. At least the defiant defendant can have no complaints about the quality of his defense...
...brief review of weaver Edwin Sulca’s biography goes a long way in explaining why his tapestries are infused with such hope and pain. Sulca is a native of Ayacucho, the Peruvian city which bore the brunt of the violent conflict between the government and the guerrilla movement Shining Path during the 1970s and ’80s. After surviving more than twenty years of civil war, Sulca has created a series of weavings that contribute to the resurgence of color and song...
...Arafat's camp, among some of the men routinely touted as his potential successors. Guerrilla warfare works for Barghouti, for example, because many of the gunmen report to him. Less so for Arafat's West Bank and Gaza security chiefs, Jibril Rajoub and Mohammed Dahlan, whose organizations bear the brunt of Israeli retaliation and whose authority is undermined by the existence of independent armed militias in their midst. To the exasperation of his gendarmes, Arafat has refrained from directly challenging the right of those militias to function, even though he periodically orders the arrest of men on Israels wanted list...
...past 10 years and has thought a lot about merry-making at fair Harvard. “Twenty-five years from now, the Harvard social scene will be so vastly superior to what it is now that there will be no need for final clubs to bear the brunt of the social life,” he says.“Harvard will be a much more commodious place to go to. People will be attracted to the fine quality of its social life as well as the rigors of its academics.” Sears is confident of this...
...hearing, Winokur took a secondary role to Skilling, who faced the brunt of the inquiry, but two hours in, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) began questioning Winokur about the approval and oversight...