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...pressure of the daily routine at Middlesex, the issue of gender is often lost in the crises of the moment. But the larger number of women at Middlesex and other courthouses across the state inevitably leads lawyers, litigants and judges to confront their own attitudes about gender...
...face and a reputation for boldness and candor. Decades of familiarity with Arafat's role as both Jekyll and Hyde have bred if not contempt then at least deep suspicion. The effect of Arafat's trademarks -- the kaffiyeh, the pseudo uniform, the cultivated scruffiness, the holster (empty or otherwise) -- often hovers between the silly and the sinister. He is the sort of survivor who tends to give survival a bad name. His longevity has often seemed the consequence not of constancy but of artful dodging...
Coming from Arafat, flexibility sounds like double-talk. It is double-talk. That is often the language of politics, particularly in the Middle East, where the vocabulary of straight talk is almost always made up of fighting words. Arafat may still be talking out of both sides of his mouth, but there is an important change in the ratio: there are fewer euphemisms for terrorism and more code words for a negotiated settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict...
...majority of the deaths under investigation were described by the authorities as suicides, often involving alcohol abuse. Others were the result of physical or mental illness. More than half occurred while the victim was in police custody rather than in prison, and many took place within two or three hours of confinement. Among the alleged suicides, details of the deaths are often hauntingly similar. Eddie Murray, 21, hanged himself in 1981 while in custody in the New South Wales hamlet of Wee Waa. Loyed Boney, 28, was found hanged in his cell at Brewarrina, New South Wales, in 1987. Bernard...
...consumers have not rushed to gain this edge in speed or convenience. Of the 3.3 million U.S. homes equipped with computers and modems, only 95,000 subscribe to one of 41 different home-banking systems. Many who tried home banking complained that the software was often bug-ridden, difficult to use and slow. Moreover, inexplicable delays -- sometimes lasting weeks -- cropped up between the time customers ordered bills paid and the arrival of the payments...