Word: circuitousness
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...Conway’s schemes, but not before we are subjected to several more of them. In the penultimate and lengthiest deception, Conway convinces an almost pitiable lounge singer, Lee Pratt (Jim Davidson), that Kubrick’s connections will land him a spot on the Las Vegas show circuit. The Pratt scenes begin with an unnecessary musical number: Pratt swaggers down the stairs, belting a vapid tune from the balustrade. When the camera zooms in, it delivers the final nail in the coffin and buries the film alive. Conway is eventually apprehended, but rather than end the misery...
...issue does not appear to have been challenged in federal court previously, though the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2005 that a Wisconsin law forbidding incest among blood relations (but not including step-relations) did not conflict with Lawrence's ruling. But in upholding prison sentences for a brother-sister couple in that case, the court acknowledged that the language in Lawrence is all but certain to prompt more challenges to prosecutions for sex-related crimes on privacy grounds...
...Justice Anthony Kennedy's ruling in the Lawrence case was greeted enthusiastically by those who thought it would usher in a new era of privacy rights. But lower courts have been very careful about interpreting the decision. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, for instance, twice rejected efforts to broaden Lawrence. In 2004, it upheld Florida's law prohibiting gay adoptions by saying the importance of providing for children gives the state the right to set rules for their adoption. And later that year, it ruled that a district judge in Alabama had erred in using Lawrence to strike down...
...Supreme Court precedent set 19 years ago in Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, public high school and middle school media are currently only entitled to full first amendment protection if they are established as “public forums” for student expression. A recent decision by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals extended the Hazelwood decision to public colleges as well. That ruling was extremely troubling in its failure to see a clear distinction between a high school and college environment—in the latter, there is a far greater need for strong, independent press, a greater emphasis...
...Investigators are now focusing their attention on the closed-circuit TV tapes from the front elevator banks on the 12th floor, hoping they will reveal who visited Woolmer in the hours before he died. They are also examining Woolmer's laptop, which was left in the room by the killer or killers. "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is the present-a gift to make the most of," went Woolmer's personal mantra. For one of cricket's most interesting characters there will be no more tomorrow. But for now, the mystery remains...