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...this autobiographical screed, Dershowitz begins with a childhood in an Orthodox Jewish section of Brooklyn. The boy was too secular for Talmudic scholarship, but he proved to be a stubborn and flashy debater. A fellow student appraised him: Alan "has a mouth of Webster and a head of Clay." The mouth went on to Yale Law School, where he ranked first in his class, yet found himself locked out of prominent legal firms because of "the world of bigotry, discrimination, racism, and anti-Semitism called the American...
Despite the stubborn overhang of consumer caution, cash registers have begun to ring more briskly at department stores and other big retail outlets, which were hard hit by the slump. In the first major sign that shoppers are returning, 13 of the top 20 U.S. retailers reported that sales last month increased over May 1990 levels...
Slots are a booming market in the gambling industry, accounting for 58.4% or $1.72 billion of gross revenues at Atlantic City casinos. They are required by law to pay out a minimum of 83% of what they take in. But the bandits can be < characteristically stubborn, especially if you want them to hit. Many slotters claim the machines are preset to pay off in the beginning of a tournament and dry up as time goes by. "Most people do think that, but first of all it's illegal," says the casino's slot operations manager, Sandra Dierolf. "All our machines...
There he might have stayed had it not been for his stubborn conviction that he could become a writer and his marriage to Vivien Dayrell-Browning, whom he had met at Oxford. She was a Roman Catholic, and in 1926 Greene had converted to her faith. He later recalled his feelings after formally being received into the church: "There was no joy in it at all, only a somber apprehension." Greene never took his religion lightly, and the Catholicism that would come to stamp his fiction served both as a stern gauge by which to measure the behavior of fallen...
...male actors give credible performances, particularly Lithgow and Tira Foran as Beth's hard-working but stubborn father. Unfortunately, Hill has several male performers scream and shout to convey anger when more moderate tones would have been more effective...