Word: pal
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When she learned that executive clemency had been offered by a shady pal of the Governor's to a criminal client for $20,000, Marie got a rapid course in political sophistication. Outraged, she began denying pardons to favored felons...
Badham gets a lot of distracting colored lights and video screens flashing madly while the lad works against a deadline to talk his electronic pal out of launching a preventive strike against the U.S.S.R. But, as with the end of Blue Thunder, there is more of technique than of conviction in this work. It may be that Badham is an exemplary case: yet another talented craftsman caught up in Hollywood's current belief that the big bucks are in the big-bang school of moviemaking. In War Games the search for a big, effects-laden finish does not render...
Increasingly, it seems the business of universities is business. Because cultural resource management projects do not generate huge government or foundation grants, a marginal program such as contract archaeology is easy to cut. Brown closed it Public Archaeology Laboratory (PAL) when the lab could no longer generate enough big-budget contracts to cover staff salaries and make a tidy profit for the university. Harvard is following suit with the ICA, despite its lower overhead. As an ICA staff member is reported to have said. "There's no good reason [to close the ICA], other than lack of interest from Harvard...
...learned an ironic lesson: all things do, in fact, pass. Archaeological sites are as diverse as the people who inhabited them or the diggers who rescue them, and the romance of the profession or the site rarely meets public expectations. The demise of the ICA at Harvard--and the PAL at Brown--links them with the ebb and flow of the sites they studied, all of which were once hives of activity, now dormant. No doubt, in a field that preys upon itself, some future doctoral candidate will write her or his discretion on "the rise and fall...
Kaminskaya's most significant criminal case is both a lesson in unfamiliar Soviet legal procedure and a riveting mystery thriller. In 1967 the parents of a 16-year-old boy, Sasha, engaged her to represent him in a sensational case. Sasha and his pal Alik had been charged with the rape and murder of their classmate Marina in a village outside Moscow. During six months of pretrial detention the boys had confessed, then recanted. The prosecution's star witness was an old woman who claimed to have heard Marina cry out as the three youngsters passed under...