Word: appealing
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...brought under the federal act. The state argued that Kevin did not alert the right people to his wife's condition and failed to prove that he was the primary care provider. "It was never a gender-based issue," says Maryland assistant attorney general Betty Stemley Sconion, who may appeal the verdict...
...mother Vonda, his stepfather Paul Bellofatto and Robert Bower. At trial, the jury was unaware that he suffered from multiple-personality disorder. Three mental-health experts established that Sean had severe brain damage as a result of an injury as a child. The U.S. Court of Appeal, noting that M.P.D. was "virtually unknown at the time of Sellers' trial," stated that his "illness is such that he may be able to prove his factual innocence." But the federal court couldn't overturn the state judgment...
...unanimous decision on Feb. 3, the committee, which is the ruling board of Boston's public school system, bowed to intense public opposition to its tentative decision to appeal, saying the admissions policies may not be strong enough to clinch a victory for affirmative action...
Lynch said about a dozen groups and individuals, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Department of Education, approached the committee to ask that it not appeal the decision...
...actors,who as a group were much better with movement andmelodramatic expressions of emotion than withsubtle feeling and delivery. Matt MacInnis '02(playing Jason Rosner) is a very good andconvincing screamer; Henley-Cohn is a fine stagepresence, and has a considerable amount of(misplaced, in this play) sex appeal; and JayChaffin '00 (as the rebellious Elliot Dachs, butreminiscent of nobody more than Seinfeld's George)has a very good sense of comic timing, despite atiresome tendency to yell a great deal more thannecessary...