Word: lawness
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...where her then husband was working for a U.S. bank. A native of Scotland and a graduate of the University of Aberdeen, she had met her future husband, an American, while studying in France. She returned to the U.S. from Taiwan in 1976 and, following her divorce, enrolled in law school in Chicago and later joined a law firm. In early 1982 she opened Personal Profiles. "In Taiwan the matchmaking philosophy was that love would grow and be based on respect and comfort, that you don't necessarily have to have an ongoing sexual passion in marriage...
...response to Popular Front appeals, some local planners are touting a scheme to turn the Baltic States into "self-financing" republics, fiscally independent of Moscow and empowered to manage their natural resources. Language is another concern: last month the Estonian supreme soviet issued a draft law declaring Estonian the official language of the republic. Plans are also being discussed to introduce a form of Estonian citizenship as a step toward controlling immigration...
...account. Says a Tallinn intellectual: "We are a legal-minded people and are prepared to examine everything in terms of the standards of international justice. That is an approach that Moscow officials will find difficult to oppose." After all, Gorbachev has often called for a Soviet state governed by law. He can hardly fault the Estonians for putting that principle to the test...
...political science major at Amherst College and a graduate of Columbia Law School, Kramer brings an impressive amount of journalistic yardage to TIME. He spent more than a decade as an editor and political writer for New York magazine, and his weekly column on national affairs was often quoted by other journals. He did a short stint as publisher of the paperback house Berkley Books. In the mid-1970s, Kramer was editor and publisher of More, a lively journalism review. Most recently he served as chief political correspondent for U.S. News & World Report...
...international affairs, and contributing to sections like Profile, Interview and Essay. Kramer says he might even be persuaded to write about the Chicago Bears. Or George Bush, with whom he is getting along much better these days. About the only thing that does not interest Kramer is the Law section. Says he: "Law school cured me." The loss to jurisprudence, not to mention to the Bears, is our gain...