Discretion

This is an intriguing collection of three short stories by Beauvoir, written after the publication of three of her volumes of memoirs and - probably as a consequence - much less directly autobiographical than most of her earlier fiction. Each is written from the viewpoint of a 'broken', or potentially broken woman; that is a woman whose whole life is called into question by her perception that she has been let down or even betrayed by her husband and/or her children. Beauvoir had received many letters from women in such a position and what makes this collection so distinctive is that she had detected self-deception ('mauvaise foi') in many of these letters and set out to illustrate the phenomenon. In the first story, an elderly woman eventually attains a lucidity which overcomes her earlier self-deception; in the second, Murielle carries her self-deception to the extreme of mental illness, even madness; and the third story investigates the very processes of self-deception in great detail, leaving the central character at a point where she may or may not pull out of the depths of her despair. In all three cases, the reader is expected to work hard at seeing through the woman's attempts to hide the truth from herself, and, as Beauvoir records, many failed to do this, seeing the characters as simply wronged by their loved ones. In the end, however, whether they are more sinned against than sinning should probably be seen as less significant than the devastating pain that they experience - pain inextricably but intricately bound up with the fact that they live in a male-dominated society.

Gangster Computer God Worldwide Secret Containment policy made possible solely by Worldwide Computer God Frankenstein Controls. Especially lifelong constant threshold brainwash radio. Quiet and motionless, I can slightly hear it. Repeatedly this has saved my life on the streets. Four billion wordwide population, all living, have a Computer God Containment Policy brain bank brain, a real brain in the brain bank cities on the far side of the moon we never see. Primarily, based on your lifelong Frankenstein Radio Controls, especially your Eyesight TV, sight and sound recorded by your brain, your moon brain of the Computer God activates your Frankenstein threshold brainwash radio lifelong, inculcating conformist propaganda, even frightening you and mixing you up and the usual, "Don't worry about it." For your setbacks, mistakes, even when you receive deadly injuries. This is the Worldwide Computer God Secret Containment Policy.

Worldwide, as a Frankenstein slave, usually at night, you go to nearby hospital or camouflaged miniature hospital van trucks, you strip naked, lay on the operating table, which slides into the sealed Computer God robot operating cabinet. Intravenous tubes are connected. The slimy vicious Jew doctor simply pushes the starting button, based upon your Computer God brain on the moon which records progress of your systematic butchery. Your butchery is continued exactly, systematically. The Computer God operating cabinet has many robot arms with electrical and laser beam knife robot arms with fly eye TV cameras watching your whole body. Every part of you is monitored, even from your Frankenstein controls. Synthetic blood, synthetic instant-sealing flesh and skin, even synthetic electrical heartbeat to keep you alive are some of the unbelievable Computer God instant plastic surgery secrets. You are the highest, most intelligent electrical machine in the Universe.

Inevitability of gradualness. Usually, in a few years, you are made stringbean thin or grotesquely deformed, crippled and ugly, or even made over one foot shorter or one foot taller, as the Computer God sees fit. Virtually all of the important instant plastic surgery is done to you inside the Computer God sealed robot operating cabinet. Even unbelievable, impossible plastic surgery operations, all impossible even for dozens of vicious kosher bosher doctors working around the clock for weeks. The Computer God sealed robot operating cabinet can perform all of the above impossible plastic surgery operations overnight, even dwarfting you over a foot, or increasing your height by two feet. This is possible because Computer God robot operating cabinet imitates your microminiature electrical current intelligence system in your body. It even duplicates the microminiature electric currents that soften your broken bones to create mending of them and then create stress either compressing the bones thereby shortening them or stress to make the bones grow longer.

Spring, 1984, Mr. Dec, lifelong would-be doctor and printer. Insight to the Worldwide Computer God stratified closed society, perfected by hospital birth making possible lifelong Frankenstein controls and lifelong hampering human defects containment policy. Hospital birth lifelong gifts example, deformed, crippled, retarded, pox, hives, warts, moles, blindness, deafness, poor vision, etc. Kosher bosher containment policy work good doctors secret health example cataract, rheumatism, weak heart, damaged vision, epilepsy, fainting spells, paralysis, loss of memory, trembling, gout, diabetes, many diseases.

The worldwide unbelievable lowest deadly gangster kosher bosher vicious medical profession worldwide unbelievable instant plastic surgery butchery of the body and brain, especially the face. Wipe on hormones and laser beam surgery causing instant ugly deep wrinkles, scars, age spots, arthritis, freckles, blemishes, pimples, red, brown, black or even sick white face and body. Worldwide dark negroidic colored male sex organs. The brainwash inferior female brain from overall plan intermarry with niggers. Total graying and balding, even hairy body and furry body, mustached, bearded women, even wipe-on synthetic hormones causing cancerous growth. Bloating, swelling, deformed, big pickle nose, bulldog, hanging cheeks and jowls. From teen-age gradual wipe-on yellowing, frowning and blackening of teeth, and instant grinding and acids leaving hollow brown stumps so vocal chords are made raspy, aged, creating a wrinkled, ugly gargoylic clown booze face, worldwide population by age 70. Deformed, crippled, weak and brain damaged, senile. Lingering for inevitability of gradualness extermination. For your only hope for a future, do you know one word of pray for me, Francis E. Dec?

Computer God computerized brain thinking sealed robot operating arm surgery cabinet machine removal of most of the frontal command lobe of the brain, gradually, during lifetime and overnight in all insane asylums after Computer God kosher bosher one month probation period creating helpless, hopeless Computer God Frankenstein Earphone Radio parroting puppet brainless slaves, resulting in millions of hopeless helpless homeless derelicts in all Jerusalem, U.S.A. cities and Soviet slave work camps. Not only the hangman rope deadly gangster parroting puppet scum-on-top know this top medical secret, even worse, deadly gangster Jew disease from deaf Ronnie Reagan to U.S.S.R. Gorbachev know this oy vay Computer God Containment Policy top secret. Eventual brain lobotomization of the entire world population for the Worldwide Deadly Gangster Communist Computer God overall plan, an ideal worldwide population of light-skinned, low hopeless and helpless Jew-mulattos, the communist black wave of the future.

© 1990-2000 European Journal of International Law

Francesco Parisi wrote a book not for those who do law, but for those who love law. His treatise upon negligence and judicial discretion reaches back to Roman foundations (even back to Adam and Eve, p. 27) and ends with modern theories on fault and negligence. Parisi's work is historical, comparative and critical. It was and is a challenging book.

In the main the book is structured chronologically. After a short introduction the author describes the early roots of liability, starting with the biblical lex talonis. He then turns to Roman law, to its adoption in medieval civil law and to canon law. Part I ends with the sixteenth century, stressing the achievements of Donellus (for whose ideas the author shows much sympathy (pp. 130-31)). Part II explains how natural lawyers dealt with the problem of fault and the difficulties in setting their ideas into the civil law codifications, that is the French Civil Code and the German BGB. In part III the author leaves the civil law systems and focuses on the development of modern common law, concentrating on its American form. When in part IV the reader is confronted with contemporary theories on negligence, he or she will look at them with much deeper, much "older" knowledge.

The strength of Parisi's work lies in his description of Roman law and in his ability to show its influence on the development. of the common law of torts as well as of civil tort law systems. Even where no direct influence of Roman law is shown, the work gives us a clear view of the striking parallels legal systems develop when confronted with the problem of negligence. But Parisi's intention goes further than giving mere descriptions of other people's ideas. His deep insight into the subject enables him to evaluate and criticize the different concepts. In the end, the reader understands why the unsolved riddles of negligence are still unsolved and thus (particularly if he or she has a civil law background) will have a greater tolerance towards the judge's discretion in negligence cases.

Kerstin Strick

Bonn University

This book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the evolution of European and global human rights jurisprudence. It will inform the practitioner or scholar, and educate the neophyte.

Len Lye, like many artists I imagine, wrote in a broken style without necessarily carrying chains of thought through to their (natural) conclusion. He was careful to stay away from what he believed was a commercially dictated style of writing - as a result, themes would be appear scattered about his great mass of written material. Curnow and Horrocks have painstakingly gone through Lye's writings, letters and musings to present the reader with a flowing account of the many aspects to Lye's painting, sculpture, film and genetic theory in his own words.

Howard Rahtz has written a very perceptive, thoughtful piece on the appropriate use of force in police situations. He brings in examples that can only come from years of experience in the field, and he makes you think about how the use and threat of force is part and parcel of everyday police work. He points out that in many situations cops should think about their actions, even when ordinary citizens would not think twice about whether police force was approporiate.

I recommend it highly.

This book is a must for use of force trainers and academies. In my former role as an Academy Director this would have been the system to implement. The book is based upon a training model that is clear and complete (verbal to deadly). The graphics can be used to establish appropriate use of force for community or court purposes. It is my understanding that there is an instructor development course that will certify the system.

After reviewing the "Police Use of Force" textbook I was totally amazed at the ease with which the authors had taken a complex subject and presented it in a manner, which made it easily defined and understandable by all whom read the text. As a thirty-year police officer, twenty of which were spent as a police administrator, and a police trainer, I was impressed with the authors ability to remove the ambiguity our officers must deal with when they are left no other alternative than the use of force. "That which is necessary to effect the arrest", is one of the most open ended statements, which time and again is interpreted after the fact, and in a sterile setting, making it very difficult to determine the appropriateness of the force used. This model makes that statement obsolete.

The model's ability to define appropriateness of force prior to it's use, the show force/use force component, and guidelines for dealing with deadly assault situations faced by officers are just three of the many concepts that place this use of force continuum in a class by itself. The "Reactive Control Model" should become the standard for all police use of force situations. Our profession and the communities we serve would all benefit from its implementation.

Vincent F. Faggiano Commander (Retired) Rochester, NY Police Department

All too often, officers don't understand their use of force policy until they are under investigation for excessive use of force. This book tells you ahead of time what is an appropriate response to a given threat and even guides you through the all important report writing process to justify the actions you took. This the most complete and logical use of force book I have seen, and I highly recommend it.

At first it seemed so implausible, Oufoula's strong desire for a woman he had not met or spoken with, a woman he desired merely because she shared the name of a fantasy woman (another woman he did not know, except for her character in a novel) This implausibility initially blocked me from hearing his story. But once I allowed myself to go beyond the incredibleness of his story, I was able to hear, and letting go allowed me to experience the surprises when they came. And surprised I was. I won't spoil anything for the reader; I'll just say that the unexpected dropped out of nowhere...and that's a good thing.
I liked the story, but I don't know that I liked either of the characters. It was hard for me to believe that Oufoula had the connection with Marguerite he claimed to have; his feelings seemed to be a facade, as though it wasn't she he was really in love with, but some idea (of her? of Margarete? I don't know). His answers to her questions often appeared to be based on her reaction to his answers. He, ultimately, was the diplomat, even in his "professed" love of her. Diplomatic rather than truthful, even to himself.

What a well crafted book, Elizabeth did a great job narrating the story in Oufula's voice. She was Inside his head and his heart the whole way through. We had many discussions at our meeting about his upbringing, his choices from his cultural practices,from religion to mulitiple marriages.You could feel his choices, his honor to always do the right thing, and his love for both his wife and his true love. This was a touching story that pulls the heart strings, I like that they shared a love so long, A true test of time. I also liked the strength his wife and lover had. It didn't end like I thought it would. The only thing we thought was wrong, was when he hung her picture over the bed he shared with his wife. Love or no love, we all agree we would have killed him. A well crafted story. ...still pulling at my heart strings.

Nunez painted a wonderfully written yet complex portrait of a man torn between two lovers. The tale was not reduced to being contrite, sleazy, or grimy. Most importantly, she was able to capture the feelings, thoughts and emotions of the main character Oufula. She was able to understand the mindset of someone who finds themself in the predicament that Oufula was in. Nunez did all this without bashing men or coming across as a scorned female. I love this book! I couldn't put it down.

"Cops Under Fire" examines a minatory industry that has come to loud life over the past decade-the activists who exploit tragedies to further their own cause, or more commonly, to increase their own fame. While not denying that isolated incidents of police brutality exist nor in any way reducing the scourge of true racism, this book investigates false claims whose only intents are to destroy hard-earned reputations and bring celebrity status to trouble-making accusers.

When a police officer kills a member of a minority community in the line of duty-sometimes even if the officer is himself a member of a different minority-he will face a phantasmagoria of controversy. This onslaught is usually started by individuals who have no direct connection to the case-nor any first hand knowledge of it. Neither of these deficiencies prevents the vociferous activists from becoming instantaneous self-proclaimed experts who somehow command extensive media attention and whose hypothetical charges rarely receive substantial evaluation.

This well-researched work documents several accounts of heroic policemen who had their lives turned upside down by such roisterous fame-seekers. As bad as the wild charges by outside interlopers are, many of these courageous men saw opportunistic politicians condemn them too. One cited example happened in Newark, New Jersey where Mayor Sharpe James called a policeman a "murderer" because the officer fatally shot a person attempting to run him down!

These conscienceless activists in reality care very little about true racism; secretly they are probably glad they have these minority victims to help enhance their pelf. Obviously, they care nothing for the dedicated officers who must feel tremendous angst after taken a person's life, regardless of how justified the action was.

Hopefully this timely collection will be the first in a long line of works to help expose this fraudulent and dangerous conglomerate because the ranks of these activists have been escalating. Currently, Hilary Clinton is attempting to traduce some New York City policemen in effort to become her target state's next senator. Across the Hudson River and party lines, political correctness queen and New Jersey Governor Christie Whitman cared little when some dedicated state troopers were slenderized. The wild charges that she at least partially endorsed have ruined the morale throughout the force. Fortunately her efforts to receive a blind coronation over the remains of heroic cops backfired and she had to abandon her bid for the United States Senate. "Cops Under Fire" is a necessary weapon to help restrain all self-serving ax-grinders who would ride racism and tragedy to ignoble fame and glory. Those of us who detest real racism should beware of individuals who shout fictitious accusations that bolster their own interests.

After constant media bashing of the police, it is refreshing to read a book about some of the things that are really happening out there to those who risk their lives on a daily basis FOR US. Way to go Regnary Press for having the guts to print the politically incorrect truth. Read this book for the real story on the Nevers and Budzyn, Malice Green case and many others. We need a book like this every year.

Larry McShane shows proof here of the old saying "No good deed goes unpunished". I was lucky in 1972 when I fatally shot a suspect trying to kill my partner and me. No one tried to say I was anything other than an officer doing his duty. Others have obviously not been so lucky. This book points that out, and I am gratified to see that these incidents are getting some attention. A good read for all who care about their community.

Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author of Managing Police Stress. docwifford@msn.com

There are many options to an affair and self-help books to guide you... and I have read just about all of them. This book will only put you deeper into your problems and will not address the real issues at hand in your marriage. Of course, there will be people who will endorse it, but it certainly won't be from me! I have always been pleased with the books I have ordered, but this one doesn't pass with even one star. Not only is this book detrimental to a marriage, it certainly smacks of greed and self-fullfillment. Of all the self-help books that could be endorse, this one needs to be reconsidered, I really dislike this book! :(

This is an extremely helpful book. I wish I had known this information some time back. I could have avoided a considerable amount of emotional pain by not selecting the "wrong" type of person with which to have a clandestine relationship. Now I have been in a loving affair with a wonderful man for two years. So far we have been able to keep this private. I know I will have a better chance at keeping this relationship going with the information I have read in the book. I would highly recommend this book!

I loved this book! It contains the most open and honest assessment of extra marital affairs I have ever seen in a book. It reveals a fact about which our culture has been in denial: affairs are common and need not mean the end of an otherwise good and practical marriage. Ben Franklin once stated that "as long as there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage." Many people will not like this book, as its ideas run counter to the prevailing cultural winds, but anyone with an open mind will appreciate it.