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Legal correspondent Adam Cohen says a Massachusetts ruling today may influence whether childrenmust face down people they have accused of sexual abuse in court. Superior Court Judge Robert Barton decided that Violet Amirault and Cheryl Amirault LeFave, both in jail since 1987, will be retried because the children they may have abused never had to face them while testifying. Courts often make allowances for children, Cohen says, but Barton's ruling, which follows five failed appeals by the women over eight years, "reflects a heightened concern about the veracity of sexual abuse charges that rely on children's testimony. People...
...snarly a skein to unravel here. The Usual Suspects flatters you into thinking you're thinking, sorting out the dead ends and red herrings, when you are really being toyed with by an intelligence as devious as Soze's. For those who don't care whodunit, the film has superior skulking by some wonderfully actory actors and brings high-wire wit to its high-gloss gamesmanship...
...objective, [it] has also produced unexpected consequences. Art is not a product like soybeans, but rather the outcome of imaginative endeavor by talented people, of whom there is always a limited supply. When grants prop up artists unable to attract audiences, individuals with limited abilities persist, crowding out superior talents." Should the American people be forced to underwrite cultural dependents who add to our decay and undermine our values rather than enhance our lives...
...only women found on the floor were traders' assistants who had worked with the guys for years and appeared to be used to the environment. The result was a disturbing hierarchy whereby a man could be a women's superior and never vice versa. The guys sometimes curtailed their crudest comments when the women were around, but the "effort" still left an appallingly unprofessional environment...
After witnessing the successful test of the first atomic bomb--a primordial burst of energy on the predawn New Mexico desert, a man-made fire bright enough to flicker in reflection off the moon--Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell sought out his immediate superior, Major General Leslie R. Groves. Groves was commander of the top-secret Manhattan Project, which had been commissioned and funded--with $2 billion--to try to build such a bomb. "When Farrell came up to me," Groves remembered, "his first words were, 'The war is over.' My reply was, 'Yes, after we drop two bombs...