Word: chutzpah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ACCORDING TO YIDDISH LORE, THE CLASSIC DEFINItion of chutzpah is a man who kills both parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan. Inmates in New York City may be offering a modern illustration: some prisoners may be turning guns on themselves in order to file multimillion- dollar lawsuits against the city -- for failing to provide adequate protection in jail. The city's department of investigation says there are currently at least eight such suits filed or pending, seeking damages of up to $8.5 million. Investigators charge that the majority of the suits involve...
Clinton's posture on the deficit is chutzpah writ large...
...bore stuff -- par for the course and unremarkable. But Clinton is breaking new ground when it comes to the deficit. The President-elect's insistence that the latest debt numbers are news to him -- that he is a victim whose best intentions may fall before a new reality -- is chutzpah writ large...
Certainly Pollard had commited crimes and deserved to serve time in jail. But life? As Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz writes in Chutzpah, the penalty of life imprisonment for acts of espionage is "rarely imposed even on those who spy for our enemies and never imposed on those who spy for our friends." Dershowitz points out that, at the time of Pollard's conviction, "the average prison sentence imposed on a defendant convicted of spying for a U.S. ally, like Israel, was less than five years...
Alternate: ALAN DERSHOWITZ--Glitz,glamour and chutzpah. Big on first amendment.Short on humility...