When I decided to quit my full time employment it never occurred to me that I might become a part of a new international trend. A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress prompted me to abandon my relatively high profile career although, in the manner of a disgraced government minister, I covered my exit by claiming "I wanted to spend more time with my family." Curiously, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the Americans term "downshifting" has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality. I have been transformed from a passionate advocate of the philosophy of "having it all", preached by Linda Kelsey for the past seven years in the pages of She magazine, into a woman who is happy to settle for a bit of everything. I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of "j
A. Full-time employment is a new international trend.
B. The writer was compelled by circumstances to leave her job.
C. "A lateral move" means stepping out of full-time employment.
D. The writer was only too eager to spend more time with her family.
Recent legal research indicated that incorrect identification is a major factor in many miscarriages of justice. It also suggests that identification of people by witnesses in a courtroom is not as (1) as commonly believed. Recent studies do not support the (2) of faith judges, jurors, lawyers and the police have in eyewitness evidence.
The Law Commission recently published an educational paper, "Total Recall The Reliability of Witness (3) ", as a companion guide to a proposed code of evidence. The paper finds that commonly held (4) about how our minds work and how well we remember are often wrong. But while human memory is (5) change, it should not be underestimated.
In court witnesses are asked to give evidence about events, and judges and juries (6) its reliability. The paper points out that memory is complex, and the reliability of any person’s recall must be assessed (7) .
Both common se
A. invariably
B. constantly
C. justifiably
D. verifiably
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