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...responds to continuing fascination with the American West by distilling its sprawling, general history into the essence of this well-knit chronicle, Berger should be commended for his painstaking research, which allows him, through our personal tour-guide Jack, to make a complicated and convoluted history seem both very straightforward and very real; distant and lionized legends like Wild Bill Hickok become poignantly human through Jack's unique perspective and experience. In his novel The Return of little Big Man, Thomas Berger proves himself to be a master of the storytelling craft through an engaging narrative that tells history through...
...straightforward on the issue of freelance investigation and research by jurors: It's strictly prohibited. Juries are supposed to reach their decision only on the evidence they hear at trial, and only according to the legal instructions they receive from the judge -- period. The McDougal jury has been struggling since it went into deliberations, however, sending out no fewer than three notes seeking clarification on various points, such as state of mind and the meaning of "innocent reason." Says Novak: "It's difficult to know, but they seemed to be begging to be informed about what might be a reasonable...
Installation was straightforward, Blum says. It took him about two hours to link up the two computers and a laser printer in his home office. The necessary power cords, adapters and software all came in one box. He plugged power cords into the backs of each computer and the printer, attached the sandwich-size adapters to the opposing ends and plugged them into regular electrical outlets. (The $150 kit also came with extra power strips.) He then installed the software, provided on one CD-ROM, into both PCs. "This was definitely something we were looking for," he says...
...still gives presentations by request, which are popular among first-year proctors because of their straightforward and honest approach to sexual issues...
There are still staggering obstacles in the way of a body-proud, open-minded and biology-affirmative female consciousness. Pressured to conform to impossible notions of beauty, girls are falling prey to eating disorders at tragically young ages. There are groups who object to any straightforward reference to female biology, like the school-library censors who periodically ban Judy Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, because it deals with menstruation. In the culture that came up with Baywatch, police officers still sometimes confuse breast feeding with indecent exposure. And, willfully or not, the evolutionary psychologists keep...