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...home I'm getting an education that is very professional, very narrow," she says. "That's why I'm very unsatisfied, because computer science is only one of the things I wanted to study...
...sight. Sitting amid the branches of three of the trees they had planned to cut that day, some 60 ft. up in the air, was a form of wildlife they had not previously encountered there: three members of the radical environmental group Earth First. They were perched precariously on narrow plywood platforms with enough food and water to last for at least a week. Dangling from the trees were two banners reading SAVE AMERICA'S FORESTS and FORESTS, NOT FRAGMENTS...
This June, for the second time in four years, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to narrow the sweep of civil RICO, preferring to leave the matter to Congress. Not surprisingly, that ruling recharged ongoing legislative efforts to reform RICO's civil provisions. Among the broad coalition pressing for changes are some of the very groups that have recently attracted the attention of prosecutors: accountants and securities and commodities dealers. Says Waldman: "It's a combination of The Untouchables and Showdown at Gucci Gulch." The congressional shoot-out to determine what happens to RICO could come this fall...
While observing the world through Barker's rather narrow range of vision, it is easy to lapse into a Barker-like mentality and lose sight of how despicable he really is. There are moments during his sexual harassment hearing when it is possible to feel sympathy for Barker and indignation at his plight...
...Congress adjourned last week for its August recess, the capital-gains-cut bandwagon gained momentum. Amazingly, Republicans and conservative Democrats, who make up a narrow majority of the House Ways and Means Committee, rallied around a scheme even more shortsighted than the President...