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Al-Majd had revealed that Prince Hassan, 51, had laid down his revolver before the king and asked to be shot if Hussein thought he was a traitor.
It seems to me that there is a basic question about a book that's often the real question in a reviewer's mind but that rarely gets laid out directly in a review: Do you hope other people actually read the book?
With her belief that unwanted sexual advances and utterances (and even, in some cases, wanted ones) degrade women so profoundly that it's worth limiting free speech to prevent them, MacKinnon laid the intellectual groundwork for today's sexual harassment laws.
Early recognition of the contrast between the stabilizing influences of density-dependent population regulation, and potentially de-stabilizing influences of environmental variation [ 1 ] , laid a foundation for theoretical modeling of population stability in stochastic environments [ 2 ] that assumes renewed relevance in light of current developments in ecology and climate research [ 3 ] . Recently, for instance, numerous studies have documented the influences of global-scale climatic variation on the population dynamics of vertebrates in widely diverse ecosystems (see, e.g., [ 4 5 ] for reviews), including species interactions at the community level [ 6 7 8 ] . To our knowledge, however, no study has yet documented a simultaneous and direct influence of large-scale climate on the dynamics at all trophic levels in a single system.
When the church was consecrated, his body was laid to rest within the walls.