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...Politically, though, the cease-fire doesn't make Barak's life more difficult than it already is, since he's already out on a limb. Edging out further is unlikely to make him any more vulnerable. Right now he's safe in power because he's bought off [the ultra-Orthdox] Shas party for a month, and after that he faces the choice of either buying them off again, or else reviving negotiations with Likud to form a unity government. They agreement they're offering is not that hard for Barak to swallow, but of course once they...
...students in the disciplines of a liberal arts education. Professor Phelan has a mission of her own: to open up the eyes of the University to the value of the study of the arts. "If the University is like the body of the ideal citizen, it is missing a limb and pretending that it's not missing," she says...
...South Carolina loses at Florida, maybe I'm a hopeless romantic. If Notre Dame loses at USC, then maybe I'm an idiot. So while I'm making a fool of myself, let me go out on a limb and make my BCS predictions...
...cycle, long before he'd ever said anything about Love Canal or the Internet. During his first presidential run in 1988, his own staff warned him about hurting his image by stretching the truth, and "how it may continue to suffer if you continue to go out on a limb with remarks that may be impossible to back up." The response that many of the specific charges are unfair has not made the general issue less sticky. "He did hold the first hearings on Love Canal. He did do more than any other Congressman to bring us the Internet," complains...
...sold. Workers eligible for workers' compensation would have been directly targeted by the bill; Most compensation programs cover only economic damages, such as lost wages or medical bills, so a worker injured by a defective machine would be unable to collect damages for injuries such as death, loss of limb, loss of child, permanent disfigurement or chronic pain. In one 1995 case identified by House Democrats, Reginaldo Gonzalez lost an arm due to a defective printing press made in 1973. The manufacturer had recognized the defects in the press in 1974 and altered the model, but neglected to tell previous...