Word: certained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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North's lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, claims that his client cannot adequately defend himself without relying on certain classified information--information that the intelligence community, represented by Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh, has been unwilling to divulge...
Cases which deal specifically with problems in business ethics, or those featuring women and minorities as subjects, for example, are often in short supply. While in most areas Harvard is "always turning cases out," says Ciulla, ethics cases, as well as those dealing with certain other specialized areas, are few, and professors often write their own in order to make new material available...
While the parliamentary system Fulbright recommends has certain advantages, it also has many problems. If Congress were to elect the president/prime minister (as, Fulbright notes, James Madison suggested in the first draft of the Constitution), there would be none of the checks and balances that keep our system free from tyranny. A parliamentary system also might become a tool to keep the power in the hands of a small, self-perpetuating body removed from the people...
...opening number, Ya Got Me from On the Town, called for an all-star reunion. Four of the five leads in the original -- Comden, Adolph Green, Nancy Walker and Cris Alexander -- spent a day piecing together photos, props, the sound track and their memories. "Jerry put us into certain positions," Comden says, "and we remembered the best we could, from our ancestral bodies or our unconscious. And then, of course, Jerry created more. We didn't want it to stop. Jerry stayed to keep working, and the four of us wandered into the street, clinging, clinging to whatever...
...last in his unofficial trilogy, about both India and England, has been banned in India and burned in England. As one who was born into the Islamic faith and studied "the Satanic verses" at Cambridge, he must surely have known that his skeptic's accounting of Islam was certain to offend; yet the very title of his book went out of its way to flaunt its hereticism...