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Cohn says he doubts that the lack of a record of case precedent is a handicap for landlords, tenants, or other board members. "I don't think I've ever flim-flammed anyone" with a recollection of precedent or through one of technical expense, Cohn says. He does admit, however, that the board's handbook of procedural and substantive regulations causes confusion. "These is one puzzle," he says. "If you try to real the board's regulations, you can't figure out what's going on. But Cohn says he does not favor a less complicated, more descriptive version...
Argentina was fully aware of the British handicap and, if anything, seemed to be taking an even tougher line, both militarily and diplomatically. As one senior Argentine Cabinet minister and confidant of President Galtieri's told TIME last week, "We are not trying to strut like roosters, but I am less worried today than when the British fleet sailed. The loss of so many lives has made negotiations more difficult. Above all, the Argentine people will not let us take one step backward. The Argentines are winning...
Amazingly, Hawking has done his ground-breaking research despite a tremendous handicap. For the last 20 years the physicist has suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease, a terminal degenerative illness of the nerves and muscles. Now, at 40, Hawking remains confined to an electrically controlled wheelchair and has difficulty holding his neck up when he speaks. Even then his voice barely escapes--it comes out sometimes as a guttural moan--and Hawking generally travels with an interpreter...
...same problem. "There's an honest to--God spring in Baltimore, but nothing in Massachusetts," he says, pointing to the 1980 squad's spring-trip loss to Johns Hopkins and the much closer game between the two in the nationals as evidence of a New England team's climate handicap...
...entertaining, but as with too much of everything, the anecdotes and one-liners grow a little weary. Pun and irony are about as complex as the material gets. (He tries to play mind games with himself sometimes. Luciano tells us, until someone reminds him he's playing with a handicap.) Stylistically, you or I could have written the book. Luciano (or Fisher) could have written something other than simple sentences, Noun, verb, object, there's little embellishment. The stories are meant to give pleasure on their own, and generally they do, but like a diet of Coke and cookies...