Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled last month that Ryan, who was director of the U.S. Justice Department's Nazi-hunting unit from 1980 to 1983, "acted with reckless disregard for the truth" in the prosecution of John Demjanjuk as the Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible...
Ryan has not commented on the Sixth Circuit's proceedings other than to say that while he accepts full responsibility for the court's findings, he disagrees with them...
...assistant) Rae Proctor. "We were poor. Mother raised us, six of us, when she was working as a cashier." Lawrence made his family laugh, then he made people on his street laugh. Then, realizing that he could earn a living at this, he headed off to the comedy-club circuit. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was impressed with Lawrence's "natural charm and presence" and hired him as host of Def Comedy Jam. Lawrence also landed scene-stealing minor roles in movies like Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. "To attain universal appeal, the conventional wisdom is that...
...League grind, he spent hours learning riffs from recordings of great saxophonists like Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, and gigged with friends around town. Two years ago, Yale Law School accepted him, but Redman put them off. By then he was too busy playing New York's tough club circuit, where he's been royally welcomed. Yale could be in for quite a wait...
Lydon said that Boston needs West to stay here and not use the city only as a mailing address. "I hope we won't lose him to the cosmic lecture circuit," Lydon, who interviewed West about his latest book Race Matters...