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...attack is even affecting civil cases. Joseph Rice, a San Francisco jury consultant, says his mock juries are suddenly more skeptical of personal-injury lawsuits. They are coming in with lower emotional-distress awards in product-liability cases and telling him it's because the plaintiffs' pain and suffering do not compare to what they saw in the World Trade Center collapse...
...Muslim holy month of Ramadan will bring the Taliban no quarter. That was the message from the White House, Thursday, as National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice vowed that the U.S. would continue to step up its military campaign to tilt the scales against the Taliban before Afghanistan's winter renders significant ground advances unlikely. And a letter purportedly from Osama bin Laden widely broadcast Thursday, which calls on Pakistanis to fight against the U.S. campaign suggests that General Musharraf may be in for a testing month as fasting Muslims are drawn together on a daily basis at their mosques...
GILBERT WHITAKER Business Educator When Whitaker was named dean of the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University in 1997, the student body had one minority pupil in a class of 225. Whitaker, now 70, made it a top priority to increase black and Hispanic enrollment, a task he had previously undertaken as dean of the B school at the University of Michigan. One reason for his quest was purely pragmatic. Having more minority students attracts more corporate recruiters, Whitaker says, and this draws more, better-qualified applicants to the school. Today blacks and Hispanics account...
...thought I would be searched. But there was no sign of soldiers. A cab took me the 100 km to Kandahar, and the driver pointed out the empty spots where Taliban roadblocks had been before the bombing. Some traffic along the road flowed toward Kandahar?trucks laden with flour, rice and other food, and a single Russian-made Taliban tank?but for the most part, people were headed the other way. There were a few vehicles carrying tires and timber, and a forlorn wedding party in four cars, the still, silent bride draped in green, bound for Pakistan. And then...
...those towns contributed to an escalation of violence. But the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Israel will cut short its current military operation in Palestinian towns, "following pressure from the United States." President Bush had reportedly dropped in on a meeting between Peres and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday and, according to the Israeli paper, told Peres that he expected Israel to withdraw from the areas it reoccupied last week...