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...skin." Archer, who did not show his back as evidence, testified that he spent the evening in question dining at a fashionable Mayfair restaurant named Le Caprice. Even the judge seemed sympathetic to the plaintiff, instructing the jurors to think carefully whether Archer was "in need of cold, unloving, rubber-insulated sex in a seedy hotel...
...familiarity with market mechanisms." That shortcoming was illustrated recently by the baffled reaction of a shopkeeper in a state-owned Moscow clothing store when asked her views on the new private companies. Suppose someone wanted to produce shoes privately, she said. "Where would they get the leather or the rubber?" Such materials have always been distributed to state-run enterprises by Gossnab, the government's main supply agency. There is not yet a procedure under which a private shoemaker can purchase leather from a private tanner. Nor are there many credit institutions that would lend an individual producer money...
...pearls under their pillows. What do the gifts mean? Can they have anything to do with the sisters' late father James Bourton, "the Suicide Peer," discovered at his desk with a "red mess where his head should have been"? Brayfield intercuts 40 years of well- researched background -- from the rubber plantations of World War II Malaya, where James went in as a boy and came out a man, to the Sassoon haircuts of 1965 London and the cocaine of today -- to solve the mysteries of James' sad end and the girls' birth. Sisterhood is powerful in this passionate page turner...
...open television microphone, Bush, taken aback by the reaction, asked, "Who was that? Some gay group out there?" Before his speech, an estimated 350 protesters, some of them suffering from AIDS, had staged a noisy demonstration in front of the White House. District of Columbia police, wearing yellow rubber gloves to protect against possible AIDS-virus infection, arrested 64 of the protesters...
Approximately 35 alumni are members of the 200-strong Massachusetts legislature and these lawmakers say that while they attained a unique perspective on many issues from their academic experience at Harvard, they do not rubber stamp the University's private agenda...