Word: dealing
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Letourneau believes that Gehrke could have sought a deal for her under a molestation rather than rape statute, one carrying a maximum penalty of 15 months rather than 89 months. She has begun reminding people that Vili was the "aggressor" in their relationship and that without violence there can be no rape. But David Allen, a Seattle criminal-defense attorney, says, "Molestation is a different crime, involving touching or fondling. Rape of a child in Washington is defined as any penetration, however slight. It's age-driven, and who the aggressor is or whether it's consensual doesn't matter...
...Philadelphia-born Calder was a fluent and effusively industrious artist who made thousands of works, and Prather has done a fine job of winnowing the wheat from the chaff, of which, truth to tell, there is a great deal. Calder never seems to have had the smallest inhibition about his chosen career. Both his parents were artists, and he made his own toys, "always a junkman of bits of wire and all the prettiest stuff in the garbage can." Growing up, he studied mechanical engineering, took painting classes at the Art Students League in New York City...
...failing to recall the actual pictures of her perished brothers to her satisfaction, Ruth began to invent all the captured moments in their short lives, which she had missed." Eddie's love for the vanished Marion turns him into a writer as well; his five novels will all deal poignantly with young men and older women. And Ruth and Eddie come to suspect that Marion, wherever she has gone, is writing and publishing novels under a pseudonym...
...leader of the next century will be the person who can envision and provide a society that ensures individual freedom and a better quality of life without relying on economic growth. Technology will improve our lives, but the true leaders will be those who are not afraid to deal with the concept of a finite earth. JOHN DYER Roanoke...
...real money, they would have walked. Biderman also notes that the value of stock swaps relative to cash mergers is off the charts this year. "They don't want to buy shares with cash," he says of acquisitive CEOs. "They'd rather sell their own stock to make the deal." In similar fashion, companies now include hefty sums of stock options in the pay of an array of employees. Sure, it's what the people want. But technically, the company is selling. Biderman estimates there are $1 trillion worth of unexercised stock options out there, a staggering...