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...rules governing self- defense at the 1983 trial of Brenda Clubine, who claimed that she killed her police-informant husband because he was going to kill her. Clubine says that during an 11-year relationship, she was kicked, punched, stabbed, had the skin on one side of her face torn off, a lung pierced, ribs broken. She had a judge's order protecting her and had pressed charges to have her husband arrested for felony battery. But six weeks later, she agreed to meet him in a motel, where Clubine alleges that she felt her life was in danger...
Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, a professor of religion at the University of Kansas and author of a 1991 book titled Encountering Mary, finds significance in the choice of messengers. Increasingly, she says, the mediums are middle-aged women torn between the demands of the home and the work front. She finds it ironic that as job opportunities expand, women "are having visions that reinforce their traditional roles." Fowler, who considered herself a "bench- warmer Catholic" before the visions began, says Mary's messages also reinforce the Vatican's ban on abortion. At the Dec. 13 pray-in, she told the crowd...
...small Datsun, but says the steep price was worthwhile because it helped the government prevent traffic jams by limiting car ownership. "Overall," he says, "life in Singapore is pretty good." Sultan Ahamed, an ethnic Indian Muslim spice trader with strong family links to his strife-torn homeland, speaks for many Singaporeans when he declares, "What shall I say? This is a paradise...
...blue helmets not only have expanded operations geographically but also have broadened their scope. Prior to the Balkan crisis, the U.N. had never set out on a humanitarian mission to a war-torn country before a cease-fire was declared, but it is doing so in Bosnia. In Somalia the Security Council took the unprecedented step of approving the current U.S. military intervention to provide protection for food distribution, even though the U.N. had received no official invitation. When the two sides in El Salvador's civil war could not agree on a land-distribution plan that was crucial...
...skepticism she encountered in the mid-1980s when she first proposed Mega-Cities, a project to promote the exchange of ideas and innovations among the world's biggest urban areas. She was told that her proposal was futile because such cities as Jakarta and Mexico City would be torn apart by disease and disorder within a few years...