Word: cavaliere
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The cavalier attitude that society held about law-breaking has diminished, and this is ultimately very good for the country. Our laws should not be joking matters, and neither should breaking them. The past law was not only unenforceable, it was unreasonable. This new policy has helped to return respect...
I'm touched for Dean Lewis that the number of 750 people attending Thursday's rally in Harvard Yard made him happy. "Isn't that at most a fifth of the number expected?" he is quoted as writing to The Crimson ("PBHA Rally Draws Crowds," news story, Dec. 8, 1995...
AT FIRST, THE POLICE DIDN'T KNOW quite what to make of Randy Lee Meadows Jr. Responding to reports of a shooting in the predominantly black Campbell Terrace section of Fayetteville, North Carolina, early last Thursday, the officers thought Meadows looked very much out of place. It was past midnight...
He left for Paris the next year. Thus, although he liked to posture as a dashing Tidewater cavalier, Whistler never became an officer, let alone saw action in the Civil War. This insufficiency troubled him and accounts for a curious adventure he undertook in 1866, when he sailed from France...
Most law professors give the amendment the same limited reading. But there is a dissenting minority. In a widely noted article in the Yale Law Journal in 1989, Professor Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas, who describes himself as "a card-carrying A.C.L.U. member who doesn't own a...