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It is also true that its erstwhile rival has collapsed rather utterly.
A potentially significant conflict is opening up between Michael Isikoff, the Newsweek reporter who's been a driving force in the Flytrap scandal, and Julie Steele, the erstwhile friend of Kathleen Willey who says Willey told her to lie to Isikoff.
In an editorial about a U.S. decision to suspend all scientific collaboration with India and to send several Indian scientists home, the Asian Age said "few scientists from the erstwhile Soviet Union faced such treatment as has been meted out to Indian scientists now, even at the height of the Cold War."
HYPED STORY OF THE WEEK : That would be Time magazine's account of the testimony of Julie Steele, erstwhile friend of Kathleen Willey.
The section Adaptations of Arabic Script was prepared by Alan S. Kaye (California State University, Fullerton), erstwhile contributor to VERBATIM; Bernard Comrie (Cambridge University) and our friend Eric P. Hamp (University of Chicago) contributed the subsection on Welsh, in Part X.