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...courts for longer than all but one supreme justice has served, would finalize the details of her severance from the Times. But several connoisseurs of the court system expressed their disappointment with the news yesterday.Greenhouse, who is 61, took the newspaper up on its offer to buy out her contract in exchange for her departure.“This is shocking and it’s most unfortunate. However good a deal Linda got out of it, the country is so much worse off,” said constitutional law scholar Laurence H. Tribe...
...must confront. “History” is narrated by a man who gradually “casts off words” due to the dawning realization that they “blur together elements that exist apart, or they break elements into pieces, bind up the world, contract it into hard little pellets of perception.” The fact that the narrator is using words in the first place to tell his story is only addressed in the last paragraph, as a kind of apologetic wave to the form that had to be adopted in order...
Odhaib opened her new workshop Feb. 23, and it's been busy. She managed to procure a contract with the Ministry of Health to make hospital gowns and bed sheets. And Odhaib says she is close to getting another sewing project from the government, this one for 1,000 new Iraqi flags...
...most of the world's best players to join his rebel outfit, known as World Series Cricket (WSC). Back then, cricketers were expected to play for little besides national pride and really did get a crummy deal from the establishment - match fees in the hundreds of dollars and no contract money. WSC changed that and, though it split cricket asunder for two years, it is generally now seen as a boon for the game. But as cricket and business writer Gideon Haigh observes: "Players are more susceptible now to financial inducements than they were when they were paid a pittance...
...García-Gasco lambasted Socialist initiatives, ? saying, "The culture of radical laicism ? leads to nothing but despair along the road of ? abortion and express divorce." Benigno Blanco, president of the Spanish Forum for the Family, agrees: "The reform has transformed the marriage contract into trash. It's banalized marriage...