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...other hand, sometimes newly empowered amateur typographers make "uneducated choices" and stick to them. The now-ubiquitous "Times Roman," originally designed for a London newspaper. Replaces such older faces as"Bodoni," "Bembo," and "Baskeryille." The people wield power in the new technology-driven typography, but most people are simultaneously intrigued by novelties and resistant to change...
DiGiovanni, whose company is footing part of his client's legal bill, also said this appeal is important because "people's civil rights are being violated." He added that winning the suit will prove activist groups, like the defense fund, can't always wield the influence over city councillors...
...INFECTED BLOOD HAS BECOME PERHAPS THE most difficult of deadly weapons to control. Those who wield it often strike without warning or remorse. Parolee Terry Boatwright, facing accusations that he had raped and also injected his ex-girlfriend with his own tainted blood because he wanted her to know what it was like to live with HIV, shot himself to death during a standoff with Escambia County (Florida) sheriffs on Nov. 28. Two days later, a Portland, Oregon, judge sentenced Alberto Gonzalez to 113 months in prison for having unprotected sex with a 17-year-old girl last year...
...never represented anyone at the Rent Control Board," said Walsh in a telephone interview yesterday. He said the interest groups in the city "run the government" and that the influence they wield is a "real tyranny...
...necessary now that Bill Clinton has won. It is telling that Hillary seems to have mastered the lessons of accommodation just as meticulously as any law school text. As the campaign unfolded, she was able to lower her public profile even as her private influence grew. She did not wield power for its own sake, but rather intervened as needed, fixing speeches, poking holes in arguments, warning the Governor of his foes and rewarding his friends. She was the candidate's most pointed critic, arguing that he was too passive in the first debate in New Hampshire (he has never...