Word: jointed
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...this mode Turow's usually sure hand loses some grip. It becomes clear that Sonny and Seth--she divorced, he unhappily married--will sooner or later revisit their pasts and collapse into bed together. What seems a little surprising is that he offers her a marijuana joint afterward and she tokes up. And neither of these two intensely self-absorbed people considers the moral implications of their behavior--i.e., that Sonny's duties as a judge involve handing out sentences for doing the very thing she and Seth are enjoying...
Harvard Law School has leapt into high-tech learning this year in a joint venture with Lexis-Nexis, a major legal database company...
...about Colin Powell. Hoping to invigorate his flagging campaign by association with the one man who still causes the Clinton campaign to worry, the GOP candidate hinted again to reporters that if the Republicans win, Powell would join his Cabinet in a star position. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs did join Dole at a political rally in Cincinnati Thursday. Although he praised Dole's war experience and foreign policy acumen, Powell would not address rumors that he would accept a post as Secretary of State in a Dole Administration. "Still, it doesn't hurt Dole to be seen...
...filed suit Wednesday to force Time Warner Cable to carry the fledgling network there. Fox argues that Time Warner, under an arrangement with the FTC specifying that it would carry another cable news channel besides CNN as it merges with Turner Broadcasting, broke a prior agreement by carrying the joint Microsoft-NBC news network MSNBC in this critical market instead of Fox News. Fox chief Rupert Murdoch says he will press for a permanent injunction against Time Warner's upcoming purchase of Turner and seek monetary damages. "Every city's cable system does have in effect a monopoly," says TIME...
...Illusion of Equality, the average annual child-support payment is only around $3,000. "Equality is being applied with a vengeance against women," she says. "Assumptions are made about women's ability to earn wages that are unrealistic, given the discrimination and different rates of pay." The trend toward joint custody can also impoverish an ex-wife, since the father puts his money toward maintaining a separate household for the kids, not toward supporting hers. The kids too get financially battered. Ultimately, the average household income for children of divorce drops 30%, while the poverty rate for children living with...