Word: handing
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Having had a hand in picking someone to help lead his pet project--the campaign--Stone's next project may be to select another to spend its fruit...
...defend their votes or will they allow Milosevic to cheat them once more? This remains the biggest variable in the Yugoslav political equation. After the opposition failed in several attempts to mount massive protests in the past year, many in Yugoslavia are pessimistic. Some analysts, on the other hand, point out that the Milosevic power structure is much less homogeneous than usually assumed. They assert that the people will not sit calmly in the face of clear electoral fraud and notice that the Serbian pro-democracy movement has found new resilience in the past year, as demonstrated by the "Otpor...
...past 200 years, the answer has been: of course not. The job of a judge is to rely on the evidence at hand, the arguments put forth by lawyers and the testimony of expert witnesses; they themselves are supposed to "specialize" only in impartiality and in the legal statutes which apply to a particular case. From this perspective, how different, really, is the Microsoft case from any other of the thousands of cases that cycle through the federal courts each year? What makes it so distinguishable as to require a special arena in which to be judged...
...Martyr Joe Kennedy Jr. (blown up over the English Channel on a virtual suicide mission) and of Hero Jack Kennedy (PT 109)--had to claw his way to a sense of worth. "He was brave," Thomas writes, "because he was afraid. His monsters were too large and close at hand to simply flee. He had to turn and fight them...He became a one-man underground, honeycombed with hidden passages, speaking in code, trusting no one completely...Although he affected simplicity and directness, he became an extraordinarily complicated and subtle...
...triumph over great odds. When the time comes to lose, as it inevitably must, doctors will too often turn away from the evidence of their perceived failure because they don't know how to behave when faced with it. Few will think to hold a dying woman's hand. They will move on to the colectomy in the next room...