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…on the meaning of passages from the Bible. We focused on two tractates, Baba Kama and Baba Metziah, in which the rabbis drew on verses from Exodus to argue out a system of rules for resolving civil disputes. It was the Talmud of torts. The intricacy and the depth of the rabbinica...

…n San Antonio, Friday afternoon, May 1, 1998. With his own fight over executive privilege raging in secret, Starr today drew parallels between his plight and Watergate prosecutors. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ERIC GAY AP Epstein also hired Bruce Reinhart, then an assistant U.S. attorne...

… and Epstein's defense team that showed that Epstein's lawyers were allowed to dictate the terms of each deal that they drew up, and prosecutors repeatedly backed down on deadlines. The lead prosecutor, Marie Villafaria, amid the negotiations wrote to Epstein lawyer Jay Lefkowitz...

…oint on this tapestry, at each stop being re-directed towards their intended destination. The resulting network, if you drew it out, would look like a fishnet: Lots of links connected to a few knotted nodes. And because the bundles of data, Baran called them packets, could be mov...

…." But the raunchiest participants are often those best known for their roles in family-friendly sitcoms on network TV: Drew Carey, Jason Alexander, Paul Reiser. I asked Mr. Saget, who starred as a lovable widower father in the long-running hit "Full House," where his own impulse...

…ance founder and head of the Democratic Patriots party Chokri Belaid was shot dead outside his home in Tunis. The event drew thousands of protestors to the streets, clamoring against the leading Islamist Ennahda party. The events heighten the Islamist-secular divide that has feat...

…al, an all-star concert and celebration that was the first official event of the presidential inaugural celebration and drew widespread acclaim as an HBO telecast. On March 25, 1996, Quincy Jones, executive produced the most watched awards show in the world, the 68th Annual Acad...

…oader regional dynamics and conflicts for a century. After years of colonial competition, France and the United Kingdom drew lines in the sand through the Sykes–Picot Agreement of 1916. This agreement divided the region into spheres of influence, and eventually led to the creatio...

… the first color revolution took place in 1974, when a dictatorship in Portugal was overthrown by military officers who drew on the support of civilian democracy advocates. Later peaceful revolutions overcame authoritarian regimes in the Philippines, South Korea, Chile, and Polan...

…sychoanalytic training- induced, Freudian-Darwinian instinctual conflict, driven by fears of starvation and castration, drew me tighter into the world of meaningless, coin flip probabilities. Our house was a block away from a West Los Angeles synagogue and we knew the Rabbi and...

…mmon ideologies, whether faith in Marxist revolution or ultraconservative, anticommunist reaction. As the 20th century drew to a close, the weaknesses of both communist systems and traditional dictator- ships became increasingly apparent. Front and center was the growing economi...

… an increasingly uncomfortable thorn in Israel’s side. I was head of Sayeret Matkal by then. Over a period of months, I drew up a carefully constructed plan — a raid by helicopter into a Fatah-dominated area in southeastern Lebanon, during one of Arafat’s intermittent, morale-boo...

…he plan. That was what now ended any prospect of military action, at least for a few months. Bibi, Lieberman and I withdrew into a side room to talk with the chief of staff, Gaby Ashkenazi, as well as the heads of military intelligence, the Mossad and and Shin Bet. We emphasized...

to get air support, but the commander of our artillery force called in all available units, and they drew a kind of protective box of shellfire around Ira’s men as they moved back. We sent our other reserve division towards the crossroads to provide support, and Amram went with t...

…mendation was an award for the achievements the whole sayeret. Dado did me another good turn. As my stint as commander drew to an end, I knew what I hoped to do next in the army: to use my tank training to work my way up the command chain in the armored corps. But like past saye...