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...sides have spent three months without settling their substantial differences. Gorski's decision to leave delayed the talks for a few weeks, as both sides reassessed their positions in light of the change in administration. But even before Gorski's departure, the talks were proceeding at a snail's pace. The union and the University disagree on two separate fronts, and thus far there has been little or no progress in either area...
...Cell. In one chapter Selzer defines the heart as "purest theatre . . . throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale. It quickens in response to our emotions. And all the while we feel it, hear it, even - we, its stage and its audience." The liver is that "great maroon snail," of whose existence one is hardly aware until it malfunctions. "No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks." The author is as wry and bemused when he describes bones, the digestive tract or a kidney stone, "this small piece of gravel...
...nation as a new civilian Prime Minister, Tanin Kraivixien, 49, was sworn in. A former justice of the Thai Supreme Court, Tanin announced that Thailand would be "guided" by stages back to full democracy. "From now on," he said, "NARC is the outer shell that protects the snail...
...snail's pace seems an apt metaphor for Tanin's plans to delay transition back to "full democracy" for at least eight years. Meanwhile, NARC's military bosses will remain as Thailand's real rulers, ready to step in if any civilian regime falters...
...99th annual meeting in Atlanta last week, Spann won by a lopsided 260-to-59 vote in the governing House of Delegates.* But the Jeffers insurgency was a signal that recent efforts to move the A.B.A. onto a moderately activist course may have slowed to a torpid snail's crawl. Reported TIME Correspondent David Beckwith: "It was almost as if the bar was withdrawing from its leadership role in public discussion of today's issues." Delegates sidetracked a resolution opposing restrictions on abortion as not "germane." Despite a pending federal antitrust suit against the A.B.A.'s strict...