Word: brennan
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...first Monday of October, the Chief Justice, his white leonine mane flowing behind him, took the center chair on the bench and announced the court's opening case (Colorado vs. New Mexico, a water-rights dispute). To the Chief Justice's right was the senior Justice, William Brennan, 76, back from his Nantucket summer home, his lively eyes on full alert behind his spectacles. The court's junior member, Sandra Day O'Connor, fresh from an African safari vacation, looked stern as a schoolmarm as the first hopeful lawyer began to argue his case...
...because of the unusually light sentences the guilty doctors received. Sherry added to the circus-like excilement surrounding the various trials when he disappeared temporarily this summer, only to reemerge arguing that he should not be jailed because of a health condition. Finally, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan recently became involved in the rape trial when he denied a personal appeal filed with his office by Hussain and Lefkowitz...
...because of the unusually light sentences the guilty doctors received. Sherry added to the circus-like excitement surrounding the various trials when he disappeared temporarily this summer, only to reemerge arguing that he should not be jailed because of a health condition. Finally, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan recently became involved in the rape trial when he denied a personal appeal filed with his office by Hussain and Lefkowitz...
...trio, already dubbed the "three wise men" by the Italian press, are Joseph Brennan, 71, chairman of the executive committee of New York's Emigrant Savings Bank; Phillippe de Week, 63, former president of the Union Bank of Switzerland; and Carlo Cerutti, 70, vice president of STET, the Italian national telecommunications company...
Last week the Vatican took the unprecedented step of appointing three international financial experts to examine the dealings between the Vatican Bank and the Banco Ambrosiano. They were Joseph Brennan, 71, chairman of the executive committee of New York City's Emigrant Savings Bank; Phillippe de Week, former president of the Union Bank of Switzerland; and Carlo Cerutti, vice president of the Italian national telecommunications holding company. The appointment of the committee is the Vatican equivalent of naming a special prosecutor in the case, and it marked the first time that the Roman Catholic Church had ever opened...