Word: yielding
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...appointed defense attorney for Moore, played by Bai Ling, making an impressive debut in American cinema. She at first is part of the overwhelming uphill battle Moore must fight to prove his innocence, as she is not convinced of his claim and tells him that a guilty plea will yield more leniency. The way that she eventually becomes convinced of Moore's story and becomes a staunch ally and hard-fighting friend on his side is genuinely touching...
...Harvard, with its $9 billion endowment [last year's number], is in an even more advantageous position [than the University of Pennsylvania]," the Time article said. "A 1-percentage-point increase in endowment spending would yield an extra $90 million, enough to cut its base undergraduate tuition nearly in half...
STEVE LOPEZ traveled to France to follow the trail of hippie murderer Ira Einhorn. But the story begins in Philadelphia, scene of the crime and home to both its writer and D.A. Richard DiBenedetto, who spent 16 years tracking down his man. Lopez's dozen conversations with DiBenedetto yield a mesmerizing story that takes you inside the mind of the hunter and the hunted. The author of The Sunday Macaroni Club, a fiercely funny crime novel that features a similarly crusading attorney, Lopez pursued his own quest. It took him to Einhorn's lawyers in Paris, the murderer's former...
...Force, a happy 50th, and some condolences. Empathize civilian-style along with Jimmy Stewart in 1966's Flight of the Phoenix. It's Lifeboat in the desert, or maybe a grim, post-war Gilligan's Island, with Stewart as an old-dog Skipper forced to yield to the "push-button world" and the ice-cold young German (the Professor?) who embodies it. You'll wince, maybe proudly, when Stewart tells us that "the little men with the slide rules and the computers are going to inherit the Earth." And then consider that this week, the whole thing could have been...
Kendall doesn't know what secrets the temple will yield when he finally breaks through the pile of rubble separating him from the interior. Will he find cult goddesses? Jeweled crowns? Kingly scepters? Or perhaps the remains of a priest or two, trapped for 18 centuries by that earthquake? Alas, there will be no answers until the next digging season begins in January. It's still summer in Sudan, and much too hot for archaeology...