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...judge. In fact, Pickering’s record not only refutes the charge of racism, but suggests he is an especially capable jurist. As Judiciary Committee member Orrin Hatch argued last Thursday, Pickering’s reversal rate is lower than both the national average and the average for district court judges in the Fifth Circuit. And, as Hatch noted, almost all of the matters on which Pickering was reversed were minor issues unrelated to the substance of the case (such as the precise determination of legal fees to be paid by a losing defendant to the plaintiff...
Even before Rimawi's arrest, Arafat was recalibrating his strategy. Aides tell TIME he was disturbed by a March 2 suicide bombing in Jerusalem by activists of his own Fatah organization. The attack struck a community--the ultra-Orthodox Jews of Jerusalem's poor central district--that is relatively moderate in its view of relations with the Palestinians. The bomb wiped out a family, the Nehmads--two parents and their two children, a nephew and two cousins...
ANNA NICOLE SMITH's struggle over her late husband's estate has lasted longer than the couple's marriage. In the latest round, a U.S. District Court judge awarded Smith $88 million of J. Howard Marshall's oil fortune. Smith and Marshall married in 1994 when she was 26 and he was 89; he died 14 months later. Since then, Smith has been battling Marshall's son Pierce, who has disputed that his father wanted Smith to receive any money. Last week the judge concluded Smith deserved half the investment income Marshall earned during their marriage, plus $44 million...
...Buda and Pest, which until 1873 were separate towns. For a glimpse of the past, head to the historic Castle Hill district on the Buda side. Perched above the river is the sprawling Royal Palace, which houses several museums, including the Hungarian National Gallery with its extensive collection of Gothic, Baroque and modern Hungarian art. Above the palace stands the Matthias Church, which was reconstructed in neo-Gothic style at the end of the 19th century over a much simpler original built in 1255. The Fisherman's Bastion, erected near the church, provides sweeping views of the seven bridges spanning...
...nowhere is this attitude more apparent than in Balk’s photographs of the women themselves. Balk completed the series on a trip to the village of Kot Goan in the district of Gorkha. Done in black and white prints, the photographs are intimate and gripping, with a distinctly documentary feel that manages not to alienate the viewer or the subject...