Word: edmunds
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Last week a federal judge in Manhattan dismissed the Justice Department lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Edmund Palmieri, citing cases back to 1804, ruled that the headquarters agreement is a valid treaty that cannot be superseded by the 1987 U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act. U.N. officials and the P.L.O. observers cheered the decision, but the Justice Department prevailed on one point: its ouster of the P.L.O.'s Washington office was deemed legal...
...week at terminals were twice as likely to suffer a miscarriage during the first trimester as non-VDT users. The difference in birth defects was not statistically significant, however. Job-related stress and poor working conditions cannot be ruled out as factors, cautions the study's director, Dr. Edmund Van Brunt, but he believes his research indicates an association between VDT use and miscarriage...
...Edmund White...
...semimemoir, A Boy's Own Story, Edmund White came as close as anyone has to producing the Great American Gay Novel. Its depiction of sexual awakening was vividly specific, yet its emotional terrain -- initial delight leading to guilt and alarm at the strange new force in one's life -- might have evoked adolescence for almost any reader. The Beautiful Room Is Empty, a sequel that takes White into young manhood, is at once clumsier and much more ambitious. At times as pretentious as the title, derived from Kafka, it trots out a succession of irritatingly self-indulgent characters...
Something of the same error of premature judgment occurred with Franklin Roosevelt. As he took office in 1933, F.D.R. hardly seemed a savior to anyone. Edmund Wilson wrote at the time that Roosevelt was a decent man, but "was there anything durable...