Word: byronical
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...Byron had visited Greece before, so he presumably knew that changes had occurred there since the time of Pericles. But his mistress in Genoa screamed too much, and bored him. Perhaps being Byron bored...
...majority of the Justices seemed ready to go further than he had. Brennan, joined by Stewart and Marshall, wrote flatly that "there can be no prohibition on the publication by the press of any information pertaining to pending judicial proceedings or the operation of the criminal justice system." Byron White and John Paul Stevens in separate opinions each indicated that they were also close to that view. All the Justices pointed out that there were other ways of protecting a defendant's Sixth Amendment rights-including moving or delaying the trial, careful questioning of potential jurors, sequestering impaneled jurors...
...most prevalent type of academic dishonesty, however, is plagiarism. As U.C.L.A. Dean of Students Byron H. Atkinson notes, plagiarism "has always been something in the scholarly ethic that transcends rape and murder." Harvard students talk of the undergraduate who made five copies of a friend's paper on "The Nature of War," used it unchanged in five courses ranging from Sociology to Morals, and got grades...
...woman's whole existence. -Lord Byron, Don Juan...
...assumed that Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justices Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell, who voted against finding the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment in 1972, will continue to hold to that position. If new Justice John Paul Stevens joins them or if either Potter Stewart or Byron White switches sides, then the nine-year nationwide executions hiatus will be near...