Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order to testify, Nussbaum, 46, was forced to come to terms with the horror of her ordeal. Originally police charged her, along with Steinberg, with second-degree murder. Prosecutors dropped the charge after becoming convinced she had been so battered psychologically and physically that she could not have participated in beating Lisa. After months of intensive psychiatric care, Nussbaum agreed to testify for the prosecution. On the eve of her testimony, Nussbaum made what her psychiatrist calls a "final declaration of independence" by slapping Steinberg with a $3 million lawsuit for the decade of abuse she allegedly suffered...
...prospects for peace inside and outside Israel falter, rumors fly in Christian neighborhoods about people seeking visas to move to North and South America. Since Christians are a minority, says the Greek Catholic patriarchal vicar in Jerusalem, Archbishop Loutfi Laham, they "need stabilization and peace in order to stay here." For the moment, at least, the fears of a disappearing flock appear exaggerated, judging by estimates from Israeli sources. They show that there are 103,000 Christians in Israel, including the Jerusalem area, compared with only 67,000 in 1967. During the same period, the total number of believers...
...elevating trifling details and making them matters of constitutional significance." The legal web has prompted officials to devise ingenious strategies for maintaining holiday displays. Small plots of city properties have been sold to private groups, as in Dearborn, Mich., or declared public parks, as in Downey, Calif., in order to erect creches...
...they reflect U.S. tradition. "As long as we're going to have Christmas as a national holiday," says Fordham University law professor Charles Whelan, "it makes sense to allow the display of a creche." But as Columbia University law professor Vincent Blasi points out, there is a catch. "In order to uphold the use of religious symbols," he says, "you have to officially describe them as having a secular meaning." Such a redefinition, says James Andrews, chief executive of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), "amounts to the trivialization of the Christian faith...
...says. Politicians tried to block her plans, so Gray used a tool no politician can ignore: votes. In 1976 she organized and registered to vote 12,000 public-housing tenants. As chairman of the citywide public-housing board, Gray is now a local political power of the first order. The success at Kenilworth-Parkside hasn't come without struggle. Poverty can % drive out hope, and Gray admits that at the start of the tenant management struggle, "there were nights I cried myself to sleep because people wouldn't listen, didn't trust me or themselves...