Word: properness
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...them was even sentenced to 18 years hard labor, and there?s certainly no shortage of manual work to do in the ruins of Ramallah. Unimpressed by the proceedings, Israel continues to demand their extradition, although the Palestinian Authority insists that under the Oslo agreements it is the proper authority to try the men. But it?s not lost on wider Palestinian society that not only the accused, but also the judges, prosecutor and the PA security men summarily appointed as 'lawyers' are all, in fact prisoners of the Israelis, right now. The Economist quotes a Fatah member saying that...
...public opinion strongly against Sharon, and they hope to hold onto that PR advantage by restraining suicide bombers from crossing Israel's 1967 borders. An Al Aksa Martyr's Brigade commander told the New York times two days ago that his group would refrain from sending bombers into Israel proper, focusing their attacks only on soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. And the Palestinian Authority appears to have extracted a similar promise from Hamas in order to avoid a Palestinian civil war - because the PA's very existence would be on the line if there were further...
Speaking to Wall Street analysts last week, Martha Stewart forcefully stated that her controversial $228,000 sale of ImClone stock last December-a day before the company announced bad news about its promising cancer drug-was "proper and lawful." Her company also announced a 26% jump in ad pages for the July issue of Martha Stewart Living. Say this for the woman who turns old drawer pulls into fancy wine corks: She knows her audience. Shares of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, in which she has a 63% stake worth nearly $500 million, recovered to $15.97 Friday after a two-week...
DIED. NANCY WHITE, 85, elegant, eminently proper editor of Harper's Bazaar during the 1960s, known throughout three marriages as Miss White; in New York City. Not nearly as ubiquitous as her primary rival, Vogue's Diana Vreeland, White kept apace with the tumultuous decade, infusing the magazine with photographs by Avedon and Hiro and featuring models in bikinis, luminous body stockings and space suits...
...These women ate, but only enough to be slim and lean, and their diet consisted mostly of nonfat yogurt, pasta and diet drinks,” she said. “But women who want to have children won’t until they have the proper weight...