Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usual example," says child-abuse authority Mary Ann Mason, who teaches a course on Children and the Law at the University of California, Berkeley, "is when a kid races across the street in front of a car. The slap literally imprints on him the need for safety. No one would consider that child abuse...
...critics fret that the law may permit churches to discriminate in hiring based on religion. Inevitably, that question and others will generate litigation. "The answers will be fact-bound," says University of Southern California law professor Erwin Chemerinsky. "But there are things these programs may do that courts will...
...Lawyers for Unabomer suspect Theodore Kaczynski should be back in a California courtroom tomorrow as they fight to block all evidence that the government seized from his remote Montana Cabin from being presented to a trial jury. While the defense argues the search warrant used to raid the cabin was not specific enough, prosecutors claim there was nothing wrong with taking the "bomb factory" they found inside...
...mean than attacking unwed moms. Everyone is against divorce in the abstract, but in the concrete, they understand why particular people they know had to have a divorce." "These think tanks know how to tap into people's anxieties," says Arlene Skolnick, a research psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley. "The gap between the way we'd like families to be and the way they are creates a constant toothache that can be poked...
...longtime Leonard fan--as a teenager he was busted for boosting a copy of The Switch from a bookstore--Tarantino chose to film Rum Punch first. But he not only retitled the story, he also moved its location from Florida to California and changed the main character from a Caucasian to an African American. Phoning Leonard earlier this year, Tarantino confessed that he had been hesitant to call because of the alterations. But Leonard, who praises the young auteur's understanding of criminals and casually realistic dialogue, says he told him, "You're the filmmaker--use what you want...