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...Review will also create a task forceto "assess and evaluate the status and treatmentof women within the Law Review," Schulmansaid. She said the committee would "confront what[the parody's] contents reflect about the LawReview as an institution and ourselvespersonally...
...Lozano was "somewhat unconventional" but says she turned to it only after routine therapy failed and after Lozano suggested that he found the notion of a loving, nonabusive mother comforting. Role-playing mother and son, she says, was a useful method of calming his behavior and helping him confront traumatic childhood memories. As for the flash card mentioning "phenomenal sex," the psychiatrist says it was a statement dictated by Lozano referring to his relationship with a girlfriend. She admits the sexual fantasies are her own dreams but says they were never meant to be shown to Lozano: he broke into...
Less than two days after that announcement, the Toronto headquarters of Olympia & York lobbed another bombshell by reporting a shake-up of the firm's management. To help confront its bankers, O&Y named a new president to replace Paul Reichmann: Thomas Johnson, 51, the former president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust. As financial advisers, the Reichmanns signed up some well- respected Wall Street names: investment banker James Wolfensohn and Robert S. ("Steve") Miller, who helped engineer the Chrysler bailout 12 years ago. Still, O&Y spokesman Peter Rosenthal stressed that "Paul and Albert remain the primary stockholders...
...listen to this music--you confront it. The synthetic noise-scape is a mine field which explodes, throwing out sharp pieces of musical shrapnel accompanied by lyrics that evoke a vision of industrial Hell. "Deserted digging through/Splinters from cracking boards/Caught upon fingers dancing in darkness/Pain shoots smack down any hole...
...Concerned that a weakened Iraq might leave a vacuum for Iranian power to fill and prompt Turkish Kurds to join their Iraqi compatriots in a breakaway country, Washington stood back while Saddam turned his guns against Iraqi Kurds and Shi'ites. Comments an Administration official: "When Bush and Baker confront the breakup of a nation-state, whether it's Iraq, Yugoslavia or the Soviet Union, they instinctively reach for an older, more traditional kind of world...