Word: circuitous
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McGregor, who calls himself "slightly arrogant and desperately sincere," last year married French production designer Eve Mouvrakis (they had a daughter this February) and is happy as the darling of the Anglo film circuit. "I won't buy into the Hollywood thing," he insists. "I want to be in good movies." It should be fun watching the battle between a charismatic young actor and U.S. moguls in search of a star...
...with his philosophy of judicial restraint, Scalia boasts a resume bursting with brilliance (valedictorian at Georgetown, a Law Review editor at Harvard, esteemed law professor at the University of Chicago) and a reputation for gregariousness and charm. So in 1986 the Reagan Administration believed that the 50-year-old circuit court of appeals judge was the perfect candidate to lead a new conservative majority on the high court into the 21st century. That he was an Italian-American father of nine whose appointment would please an ethnic constituency was a bonus. At the time, Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone predicted...
DIED. ELBERT TUTTLE, 98, former chief judge of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals whose unflinching, pivotal civil rights rulings in the 1960s helped dismantle Southern segregation; in Atlanta. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
...ruling of the Circuit Court provides a precedent which other judges, while not bound to follow, may use as a guideline...
...language in the [Circuit Court] judge's opinion is altogether hostile to Harvard's current practices on affirmative action," Mansfield said. "It was in some sense validated by the Supreme Court when they refused to review...