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...They will take into account the greater financial liabilities faced by parents who are not covered by formal retirement plans...
...This one's a little more explosive. First, the calendar: Wagner has seven days to submit his formal report to Chairman Curt L. Hebert, a Bush appointee, and the rest of the five-man FERC board. Three more of whom are Bush appointees. If, as seems likely, the FERC bosses take Wagner's advice about getting a better class of advice and holds the hearing, that's another 60 days on top of that. At which point the FERC can start think about offering a decision...
...making quick progress in their specialty-arrests. "They arrested everybody they could find with a beard," says a Yemeni official. Now Yemeni sources have told TIME that the Yemeni Attorney General's office could soon bring the suspects it has in custody to trial and put a unilateral and formal halt to what was once a joint Yemeni-FBI investigation. Likely convictions would quickly result in death for the suspects...
...writ of the international tribunal does not extend beyond the sidewalk outside its chambers. Like many other international institutions, from the IMF to NATO, the tribunal is a subsidiary of Pax Americana. These institutions are granted more or less formal independence, but absent the U.S., they are powerless...
...these parallels between the invented and the real, The Ghost Writer conveys a formal design and aesthetic shapeliness that are antithetical to the factual imperatives of autobiographical writing. Roth has tirelessly insisted on the distinction between the raw material of life and the transforming power of fiction, and his energy shows no signs of flagging. His office is a study on his Connecticut property about 60 yds. from his house: "I work at my job the way most human beings work at jobs; I start mornings and quit evenings." Bad reviews no longer bother him: "I'm sometimes frustrated...