Word: authorizes
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...golden opportunity for criminals," says James Cavuoto, editor of Micro Publishing Report, based in Torrance, Calif., and author of a new study that describes the scope of the problem and offers tips for detection. According to Cavuoto, desktop forgers can doctor a wide range of documents: passports, birth certificates, immigration cards, stock certificates, credit- card receipts, purchase orders, drug prescriptions and letters of reference. Academic transcripts are particularly susceptible because college students have easy access to the necessary equipment...
...this government is truly dedicated to conducting elections," said U.S. Ambassador Alvin Adams, who played a crucial role in hastening Avril's departure. As a lawyer and judge, Trouillot, 46, earned a reputation for integrity and political independence. The tenth child of a working-class family, she is the author of several books on law and rose through the judicial system to a seat on the high court. In her inaugural speech, Trouillot "accepted this heavy task in the name of the Haitian woman...
...invent a dizzying array of plots and a surprising cast of characters to embellish the scene. When children imitate what they see on TV, however, they do not sift the play through their own experience. "The boys end up imitating violence they don't even understand," says co-author Levin, an associate professor of education at Boston's Wheelock College...
...pawn: manipulation is a two- way street. In a series of New Yorker articles that was recently published in book form, writer Janet Malcolm argues that the journalist's power to play God with a source's life inevitably leads to treachery. She examines the case of best-selling author Joe McGinniss, who ingratiated himself (and shared a book contract) with Jeffrey MacDonald, a physician accused of brutally murdering his wife and children. But instead of writing the exculpatory tome that MacDonald had been led to expect, McGinniss produced a work of pitiless condemnation. Malcolm uses this example to argue...
Alexander, author of a 1983 book on Jean Harris and the murder of diet doctor Herman Tarnower, carefully details the lives of the players: Myerson's lover Andy Capasso and his estranged wife Nancy; Judge Hortense Gabel, who presided over the Capasso divorce; and Sukhreet, the judge's troubled daughter. Bess is a towering "glamazon" who dazzled almost everyone she met; Hortense Gabel is a stocky housing lawyer with Coke-bottle glasses and sensible shoes. Yet Alexander pairs them as spiritual twins. Both had climbed out of the Bronx through brains, hard work and chutzpah. And both hated looking back...