Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...principled defense counsel, first-year associate or eager law student in sweaty peril? In July the film version of Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, arrives in movie theaters with Sandra Bullock. Since movie versions of The Firm (Tom Cruise), The Client (Susan Sarandon) and The Pelican Brief (Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington) have cumulatively grossed close to $600 million worldwide, adaptations of the rest of the canon...
...Angela A. Sun '96 for "For the Right to Be Heirs: An Examination of the New Territories Laid (Exemption) Ordinance as a Case Study of Gender Politics, Village Unity and the Law"; Jennifer T. Sun '96 for "The Fournier Transform in Computational Learning Theory"; Rachel K. Teukolsky '96 for "'Brief Exposures': Photography as a Thematic and Technique in Joyce's Ulysses"; and Alice Y. Ting '96 for "Part one: New Catalysts for the Sharpless Asymmetric Dihydroxylation; Part two: Lanosterol Synthase Studies...
Given that 1996 is an election year, I have often discussed the current system of campaign financing with others. The usual exchange involved some mutual laments about the demoralizing nature of present campaigns, a few comments on the feasibility of given reforms and a brief evaluation of current political leaders. Whenever I spoke with a fellow "liberal," we always talked about how best to ensure the "equal influence" of all people, rich and poor, in governmental policy. But one of the conversations broke this mold, and helped me see the problems with an "equal influence" paradigm of reform...
...viewer in a permanent state of ghoulish expectation. Those not killed by the cholera are reduced to panic-stricken animals, ready to turn on anyone suspected of spreading the dread disease. Oddly enough, this aspect of human nature is portrayed in a purely comic manner, highlighted by a brief but very funny cameo appearance of Gerard Depardieu as the harried mayor of a cholerastricken town. However, this humor doesn't really lighten the rest of the movie, which is pretty plainly meant to be taken seriously...
...represented the very company, International Paper, that helped cause the removal of the first special counsel because it had sold land to the Whitewater Development Corp.; he has ties to groups bent on defeating Clinton; and on the eve of his appointment, he was considering filing an amicus brief in support of Paula Jones' right to sue the President...