Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chang, who upset second-ranked Al Parker of Georgia last year, is coming off an outstanding summer. He defeated Mike Bauer, a top-100 player in the world who once eliminated Boris Becker at Wimbledon. Chang amassed 18 points on the Canadian satellite pro circuit and nearly earned a chance to play in a U.S. Open qualifying round...
...foodies, Florida was never a big stop on the U.S. eating circuit. Tourists ate fish, most often frozen. Frozen crab cakes. Frozen fried shrimp. Frozen Dover sole. For authenticity, there were boiled stone crabs, alligator for the hardy and lots of Key lime pie. In Guide Michelin terms, not worth a detour...
Adding to his burden was an unexpected intervention by the Department of Justice. While Operation Rescue lawyers asked the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate Kelly's antiharassment injunction, the U.S. Attorney for Kansas, Lee Thompson, filed an amicus curiae brief contending that federal courts had no jurisdiction over the case. Kelly, in an almost unprecedented TV interview on ABC's Nightline about the proceedings, angrily charged the Justice Department with giving its "imprimatur" to "a license for mayhem...
...Pruitt, an ordained minister, taught soldiers to defend themselves against chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Her expertise could have been vital in the war against Saddam Hussein. But during Operation Desert Storm, Pruitt was neither protecting nor ministering to soldiers in the Persian Gulf. Her battleground was the Ninth Circuit Court in California, where she was busy fighting to overturn the Army's 1986 decision to discharge her because she is a lesbian. "It's sad," she says, "that the military wastes time bothering people about what they do in their private lives rather than what they do on duty...
...Southern lunch counter as the wall behind them broadcasts footage of the taunts and attacks of an actual white segregationist mob. Will these exhibits be inspiring, living history or a parody of the Disney style? What is one to make of a museum whose board chairman, Tennessee Circuit Judge D'Army Bailey, says seriously that "I wanted not only sirens and barking dogs, but I even envisioned a whiff of tear...