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Silverglate is also sympathetic to the plight of his publicity-prone colleague. "I'm more peripherally involved than he is, and I have not been able to get any work done in the last two-and-a-half days," he says of the publicity surrounding the Mahoney nomination...
...Prime Minister came to the same conclusion by relying on one of her favorite axioms: "You act on what your mind tells you, not what your heart tells you." Late Wednesday night Thatcher discussed her plight with Denis, her husband of 39 years, in their second-floor apartment at 10 Downing Street. His succinct advice: "Margaret, it is time...
...dramatize their plight, four Burmese hijacked a Thai Airways jetliner on Saturday and demanded the release of imprisoned dissidents. After diverting the Bangkok-to-Rangoon flight to Calcutta, the hijackers said they wanted to make the world "hear our pleas for justice and human rights." They surrendered peaceably to Indian authorities...
Once political outsiders, women candidates now find themselves running on the inside track. But elsewhere there are hurdles: the plight of female inmates, legal challenges from the unborn...
...feasibility studies. A year after the quake, $630,568,706 in federal and state funds has been approved for relief and recovery. But only a third of the 38,000 people who requested emergency housing help have received it so far. Thousands more are still without permanent homes, a plight mainly affecting the poor because the quake destroyed so much low-cost housing...