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...convict Milosevic not just in the eyes of three sitting judges but in the court of world opinion. Yet never has the Hague tried a defendant so uncooperative. Milosevic seems determined to make the proceedings a spectacle of courtroom subversion, refusing to recognize the tribunal, refusing to enter a plea, refusing to select defense lawyers, refusing even to wear headphones to hear the proceedings in Serbian...
...agent and confessed Russian spy Robert Hanssen admitted his guilt last July under a plea bargain that enables him to escape the death penalty if he tells the whole truth about his spying activities. The FBI has just finished six months of questioning Hanssen under a polygraph, but some counterintelligence hands are not happy with the results. They think Hanssen is still not telling all. Sources tell TIME the polygraph indicated possible deception when Hanssen denied stripper Priscilla Galey's claim that he had tried to recruit her as a spy in 1990-91. Hanssen said the attraction was purely...
...Milosevic not just in the eyes of three sitting judges but also in the court of world opinion. Yet never has the Hague tried a defendant so uncooperative. Milosevic seems determined to make the proceedings a spectacle of courtroom subversion, refusing to recognize the tribunal, refusing to enter a plea, refusing to select defense lawyers, refusing even to wear headphones to hear the proceedings in Serbian...
...Women’s Guide is convincingly adamant about the need to prevent collective “amnesia” with regards to the rocky history of women at Harvard and to provide a forthright discussion of gender issues facing women (and men) today. But the back cover plea to find “female readers” begins on the defensive, replying to an invisible critic that “this book is in fact more than The Unofficial Guide without the restaurant listings.” With such unprovoked hostility, the female reader is left to wonder...
...still questions the validity of studying “women’s issues.” The need to remind women that they are marginally better off than their foresisters responds to an administrative reluctance to admit that there are still inequalities now. And the tounge-in-cheek plea for male allies responds to a social climate that assumes that no man would have a real reason to offer support...