Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member teams competing for the top honors in November have survived a rigorous series of elimination rounds that began in 1982, when they were first year students. In addition to deciding the winning team, the justices award prizes for the best brief and the best individual oral argument. The winners' names are permanently inscribed on a plaque in the Law School library...
...calculated effort to demonstrate Soviet pleasure at the upcoming resumption of talks with leaders of the United States. It was also meant to cast Mondale as the more reasonable, moderate half of the Presidential candidate duo, as a practical statesman aware of the urgency of superpower communications. At a brief and formal meeting with the President earlier in the week, by contrast, Gromyko was careful to maintain an expression of utter solemnity...
...approach-fully shared by the Soviets-toward making do with its adversary. Reagan mouthed all the right words in his peacenik-comelately rounting before the U.N. General Assembly, but to those who have been watching with some discrination the foreign policy deeds of his Administration, they rang hollow. A brief capsule of this history is highly instructive...
...when you think about it, the pedagogical possibilities are nothing short of inspiring. A brief conversation after class might stretch to a lengthy interchange ("Professor, do you mind if we continue this over a spot of broccoli-cheese pasta?") A meeting of minds in the wide open spaces of the Freshman Union...
...child-abuse laws have eliminated the longstanding legal and societal recognition of the "clergy-penitent privilege." Mellish would face no legal trouble if the crime were murder or rape; clergy in Florida are forced to testify only concerning abuse of children, the aged and the handicapped. His jailing, however brief, has prompted united interreligious support, with Roman Catholic priests and Jewish rabbis joining Protestants to back Mellish's appeal...