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...After an eight-month trial, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman now sits in a Manhattan jail awaiting a jury's verdict in the case accusing him of plotting a religious war against the U.S. He and nine co-defendants are charged with conspiring to blow up the World Trade Center and other New York City landmarks. In a rare interview last week, Time correspondent William Dowell talked with the blind Egyptian cleric about the trial and his anger...
...couples therapy and individual counseling. They have chosen to use a mediator and work out the details at the kitchen table. "It's a much healthier environment for [the children]," says the wife, a Presbyterian minister. "They see that we still treat each other with respect." The six- to eight-month process will cost $2,500 and produce a divorce decree, a property agreement and a parenting plan to be submitted for court approval...
...pileup of confusions that those reforms might clear away is obvious from Adler's description of the 1989 lawsuit that Liggett & Myers, the giant tobacco company, brought against Brown & Williamson, a rival that Liggett accused of unfair competition. After an eight-month trial that hinged on notions like "predatory price discrimination" and "price-value submarkets," jurors had to rely on memory alone to recall testimony that filled 108 volumes. The judge's 81-page instructions gave them such helpful hints as this one: "You may wish to reject an inference of predatory intent if you find that a substantial motivation...
...eight-month delay was caused by problems stemming from the reorganization of Sun Microsystems Inc., Toth said. He said the delivery of important products such as operating systems and compliers had been delayed, Toth said...
Islamabad -- A staunch advocate of family planning in her overpopulated homeland, Pakistan's Prime Minister, BENAZIR BHUTTO, appears not to be heeding her own advice. Although the steamy tropical summer has arrived, Bhutto, 40, has taken to wearing coats or heavy gowns in an effort to hide her eight-month pregnancy; the baby is supposed to "announce itself" later this month. Not surprisingly, Pakistan's favorite pun plays off Bhutto's party initials, P.P.P. (Pakistan People's Party): with three children already, she's known as the "Perpetually Pregnant...