Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mass suicide. The author's story, of course, is a rough match with remembered headlines--of Waco, of Heaven's Gate and the rest. But the mad Oyster, dead before the narrative begins, and the hate-filled mining town, dead as the last page turns, have their own bitter, brilliant reality in this impressive novel...
...Bruce Hay is a brilliant scholar and teacher who brings much to the Law School," said Dean of the Law School Robert C. Clark...
...Mary, brilliant Mary, crystallized so many of my thoughts in the movie: Do these men actually think that they will elicit a positive response? Do they truly expect a woman to turn around and introduce herself? Is there the prospect of a relationship or casual sex in mind, or is degrading a stranger the entire thrill? I wish I knew the answer. I also wish that men didn't think this behavior or any other of their stunts make them charming. They don't. I prefer a gentleman...
...fact, I think Cotton's remarks are, in a sense, brilliant because they restate 30 years of reactionary rhetoric against affirmative action with admirable brevity. What Cotton does not seem to understand, though, is that affirmative action is not about some amorphous thing called diversity. Instead, it is about social and political power. Simply put, the idea is that people who get more education have more say about the issues that matter to them...
...statute that reversed the ruling. Not infrequently, Lazarus contends, it was the clerks--highly credentialed recent law-school graduates hired by individual Justices to help research cases and draft opinions--who helped manipulate the results. The conservatives prevailed in the racial-harassment case, he says, in part because a brilliant conservative clerk "spoon-fed" a new and impressionable Justice Anthony Kennedy an argument that pried him away from the liberal position. Critics of the book question Lazarus' accounts. They say he paints conservative conspiracies where none existed. Lazarus says a weekly dinner at a Chinese restaurant was a meeting...