Word: circuitousness
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...really tough opposition. So this was a fairly good start.” This season, even more so than in years past, the women needed the practice. With the loss of junior foil fencer Emily Cross, the team boasts three freshmen in the weapon, all experienced in the national circuit, but not the college. According to Brand, this transition can be difficult, as they begin to compete not only for themselves, but also for the team. “I didn’t know the college format,” freshman foil fencer Artemisha Goldfeder said...
...December 20 at 9:30 a.m., Tice will stand before Judge Everett Martin, Jr., of the Fourth Circuit court of Virginia and, at the judge's discretion, could go free. The rare decision by a Virginia court to overturn a capital murder conviction may bolster the cases of the two other Navy sailors convicted along with Tice. Those men, Danial Williams and Joseph Dick, Jr., are serving life sentences and have filed petitions asking for clemency from Virginia governor Tim Kaine on the grounds that no physical evidence connected them to the scene of the crime and their confessions were...
...other judges, Fourth Circuit Appeals Court Judge Diana Gribbon Motz, said the dynamic nature of media makes advertisements difficult to define...
...says Basam Ridha, an adviser who has been tasked by al-Maliki to hasten the punishment. Some cases, says Ridha, have taken a year or more just to be heard by the investigative judge, who decides if the case needs to go to trial or not. Other prisoners short-circuit the process and find ways to get out of prison, either by paying their jailers or, in some instances, bribing the judge to dismiss their case...
...terminally ill patients are generally quite willing to try anything that might work, even if the drug is risky. When patients have little to lose, it seems completely unreasonable for the FDA to not even let them try. That may be why the federal appeals court for the D.C. Circuit, the court that hears cases about regulatory agencies, ruled on May 2 that “a terminally ill, mentally competent adult patient’s informed access to potentially life-saving...new drugs” is a right that “warrants protection under the Due Process Clause...