Word: sher
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Plant spokesman Ron Sher said the demonstrators are a "vocal minority...
...rated clinics can honestly boast that up to 17% of their patients become parents as a result of IVF. But some lesser operations apparently cite similar potential success rates in their come-ons, even though their own performance may be far worse. Says Geoffrey Sher, medical director of San Francisco's Pacific Fertility Center: "The consumer is in the dark. A startling number of programs have never had a single baby born, and they are still quoting statistics." Doctors can start up clinics even if they have little experience or specialized training. "It's very easy for the medical profession...
Shakespeare is admirably served at the R.S.C. by an unstintingly gory Titus Andronicus, a Twelfth Night that underscores the play's dialectic between religious piety and hedonism and a Merchant of Venice that stars Anthony Sher as an unabashedly Levantine Shylock. Sher's lilting cadence, bushy beard, flowing robes and sinuously Oriental gestures bespeak his status as an outsider in a world, much like our own, where economic imperatives bring diverse peoples into close contact without necessarily allowing them to understand one another...
...other side are Jewish organizations, committed to punishing perpetrators of the Holocaust, and the Justice Department, which says it sometimes has no choice but to settle for Soviet evidence. "The documents and the witnesses who lived through this period are still in the Soviet Union," says OSI Director Neal Sher. The OSI is satisfied it has the right man. "Not once in 40 years has anyone proved a case of Soviet forgery or perjury by a Soviet-supplied witness," says former OSI Prosecutor Eli Rosenbaum, now World Jewish Congress general counsel...
...counsel are also invited to cross-examine witnesses when videotape depositions are taken in the Soviet Union, at U.S. expense in the case of indigents. Finally, an American court decides whether to accept such evidence and how heavily to rely on it. "Our system provides all the safeguards," says Sher...