The Siac panel, which heard some of the case in secret, is expected to give its ruling at the end of November.
So, we subcontracted some of the case management to people who were trained to assess a family's debts, to help them get death certificates, to navigate the system of benefits and issues specifically related to the Oklahoma City bombing.
The structure is a bit unwieldy: some of the case studies, fascinating though they are, bog down the main argument in unassimilable details, while the argument itself sometimes threatens to float away into abstraction.
Some of the case histories take in the stay-out reflex, when the husband won't let the wife stay out, but he can; the party crisis, when only wife wants to go to the party, and husband wants to stay home; and the man who is married and goes around saying, "A man is a fool to get married", which culminates in a divorce.
Indeed, some of the case histories here, meant to illustrate Mundy's thesis that advances in reproductive technology have thrown the world into flux, seem more useful as backup for claims that biology remains destiny, that human nature hasn't budged since the Stone Age.
The Bush administration's refusal to turn over the data has been a source of friction with Mohammed ElBaradei, the director general of the agency, who has argued that Iran must be given a fair chance to examine some of the case that Washington has developed.
