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Prosecutors are not having an easy time. Milosevic does not play by all the rules: he refuses to read court papers, will not meet with prosecutors and does not accept standard documents as evidence. This has slowed down the proceedings. The prosecutors have been left to bear the brunt of Judge Richard May's insistence on "judicial economy"--with repeated instructions to cut their witness list--in a case expected to last up to two years. At least the defiant defendant can have no complaints about the quality of his defense...
...buzz of impossible moments is what rock stars live for, but it's impractical for a political advocate. Two weeks after the Super Bowl performance, Bono is in Los Angeles to accept a $100,000 donation from the Entertainment Industry Foundation for DATA. He calls a meeting on the porch of his suite at the Chateau Marmont with Michael Stipe, Quincy Jones, Bobby Shriver (the record-producing and fund-raising son of Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver) and Jamie Drummond, DATA's director. It's a new-ideas meeting, and Bono hopes to tap some of the music industry...
...slip of paper and tossed into a hat. Each person then chooses a slip of paper, "winning" the designated item--which can then be traded for another if someone else will swap. Heirs are free to say no to trades by agreeing in advance that they will accept whatever they have selected from...
...staff’s argument in favor of President Lawrence H. Summers’ announcement is shortsighted and harsh. To accept suspension as an expected and fair punishment for unauthorized occupation of University buildings, the staff must believe that the University is perfect—that there would never be a need for students to act out against the University in protest...
...comfortably settled in our careers? When we have children? Because if we don’t stop the trend of our future nostalgia, we run the risk of never actually getting the chance to sit back, remembering these days as the perfect illusion we constructed. Or, we might never accept the illusion, remembering them as the constant attempt to live the perfect life...