Word: byronism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school is being portrayed as a place kidsgo to learn how to kill people," said Rindgejunior Byron Logan, who marched in a peace rallyto the MIT campus last Thursday. Logan says thathe, along with many other students "want to findout what really went on," expressing doubt thatMcHugh, Donovan or Velez actually played thedeadly game...
...sick of all the violence in Cambridge andaround the country," said junior Byron Logan, whospoke at the rally in front of the MIT studentcenter...
Baden's exhumation last June of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers appears to meet that test. Although white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith was charged with the 1963 murder of Evers outside his Jackson, Mississippi, home, two juries deadlocked, and Beckwith, who denies the charge, went free. Last year prosecutors reopened the case, but the original autopsy report was missing. So Baden was called in to dig up the surprisingly well-preserved body and do another autopsy. If Beckwith is retried, Baden will probably testify, and a conviction could lead to the reopening of other unsolved cases. "There...
...Senate's lukewarm 52-48 confirmation vote -- one of the thinnest margins in court history. As in the abortion ruling last week, he has linked up with the court's hard-line conservatives, , Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. These three have often combined with Byron White and three more moderate conservatives, Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter, thus giving the court a conservative majority in most important cases last term...
Most Justices say they need at least five years to settle fully into their role. Many have found their positions shifting during that transitional period: Nixon appointee Harry Blackmun, for example, drifted to the liberal end of the court, while Byron White, a Kennedy appointee, moved the other way. Don't look for any such lurch from Thomas. "My impression is that Thomas arrived on the court knowing where he belonged," says University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard...