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Last week, in a test of strength between Palestinian activists and the Israeli army, the underground leadership of the intifadeh banned Gazans from working in Israel for two weeks. The strike was called to protest the army's latest method for controlling troublemakers: a computerized ID card listing any previous criminal charges that all Gaza men aged 16 to 60 must now carry. The army says about 65,000 of the cards have been issued; Palestinians claim to have confiscated and destroyed thousands of them...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
Still, much valuable knowledge is being lost, according to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, because there is no uniform method for collecting information on unnatural deaths. Increasing numbers of M.E.s believe their expertise can also serve the living victims of assaults. Dr. Charles Petty, chief medical examiner of Dallas, regularly checks bruised children brought to a county hospital to see if they are being battered...
...life by the Interregional Group. In the first issue of its new newspaper, Moscow Deputy Sergei Stankevich assured his colleagues that they no longer had to believe that organizing a political opposition was a crime against the state. A struggle among dissenting factions, he said, "is the only possible method of existence for a legislative body." Counting absentees, 388 Deputies said they were willing to associate themselves with this departure from Communist rectitude. Though that is a distinct minority of the 2,250-member Congress, the surprising thing is that an opposition faction exists...
Although the IEM has developed and changed a lot since its 1969 inception, some students of the program suggest that the case study method is not as useful today as it might have been in the days of campus riots...